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The Rockets’ Song (Free verse) by Dovina

Alignment with this war has awakened hope, for war is life to us, not death— romantic violence, chivalrous at last under technology’s rule. The President called as Pope Urban did, preaching the first Crusade, admonishing us, who waged wars for self-interest and plunder, to remake ourselves— Soldiers of Democracy, achievers of stature, of warrior nostalgia. I was fired with utopian ideals then, engaged in the tragedy of war, among frauds and adventurers —now a lingering silence—

Dovina 6-Dec-04/7:22 PM
“Shocked with dismay,” “abysmal outcome,” and “urging your use of strong language,” are inelegant because they use ordinary words with their ordinary definitions to point out your prudish arrogance. Your elegant “mouth plums” relies on cultural setting and carries an air of aristocracy – an elegant Briticism. “Howdy!” and “Y'all!” are particular to sections of the US, not general Americanisms.




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