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[misha () cerber no (Mikhail Iakovlev)]

Why don't you guys make a new poetry mailing list?
I don't get it how moderators passed this through..

Is someone lazy, or what?

I don't want to believe that this list is starting to get spammed by 
off-topic poetry posts. It's already second one!


Cheers,
Mik-



On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Charles Stevenson wrote:

> Ah crap just one more I promise. Then I'm really going to try to
> sleep. This one speaks truth as well:
>
> BURY ME WITH SOLDIERS
>
> I've played a lot of roles in life;
> I've met a lot of men.
> I've done some things I'd like to think
> I wouldn't do again.
>
> And though I'm young, I'm old enough
> To know someday I'll die,
> And to think about what lies beyond,
> Besides whom I would lie.
>
> Perhaps it doesn't matter much;
> Still, if I had my choice,
> I'd want a grave 'mongst soldiers when
> At last death quells my voice.
>
> I'm sick of the hypocrisy
> Of lectures of the wise.
> I'll take the man, with all the flaws,
> Who goes, though scared, and dies.
>
> The troops I knew were commonplace
> They didn't want the war;
> They fought because their fathers and
> Their fathers had before.
>
> They cursed and killed and wept...
> God knows They're easy to deride...
> But bury me with men like these;
> They faced the guns and died.
>
> It's funny when you think of it,
> The way we got along.
> We'd come from different worlds
> To live in one no one belongs.
>
> I didn't even like them all;
> I'm sure they'd all agree.
> Yet I would give my life for them,
> I hope some did for me.
>
> So bury me with soldiers, please,
> Though much maligned they be.
> Yes, bury me with soldiers, for
> I miss their company.
> We'll not soon see their likes again;
> We've had our fill of war.
> But bury me with men like them
> Till someone else does more.
>
> -- Not sure on the author here either :(
>
> peace,
> core