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Wednesday, March 20, 2013

ARAB SEASONS SPRING ETERNAL

by Earl J. Wilcox

     
Clay Bennett,
 Chattanooga Times Free Press, Aug 20, 2002
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Ten years have passed—
Ten long winters and ten long summers,
Ten long springs and ten long autumns.
Yet the WMD are still absent as they were
When the first waves of shock and awe
Killed the first ten thousand.


Earl J. Wilcox writes about aging, baseball, literary icons, politics, and southern culture. His work appears in more than two dozen journals; he is a regular contributor to The New Verse News. More of Earl's poetry appears at his blog, Writing by Earl.