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Friday, December 02, 2005

WE ARE PLANTING

SPECIAL TO THE NEW VERSE NEWS
FROM THE PENTAGON POETRY UNIT

We are planting
seeds
of freedom in the sands.

They will not lie
fallow.

Nor will
we.

We will not lie.
We did not lie.
We do not need
to lie.

We empower
our army
to inform

with facts,
not fiction . . .
but a soupcon

of poetic license from time
to time
perhaps.


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