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Poetry

byronius

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2. I like your stuff back. Especially your last one.

Reply to cali (Reply #1)

Fri Jun 6, 2014, 01:01 PM

Jun 2014

I'm reading Barbara Tuchman's 'March Of Folly', the last section on the Vietnam war. McNamara's smiling face as he watches the carrier jets departing was just so iconically stupid, I was driven to satirize it.

Messy, messy times. Kinda like these.

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I like it. cali Jun 2014 #1

I like your stuff back. Especially your last one. byronius Jun 2014 #2

thanks. I really like that the reference was clear cali Jun 2014 #3

Awesome. Your explanation makes it better. byronius Jun 2014 #4

yes, shattered. what's called a displaced segmental spiral fracture cali Jun 2014 #5

That sounds quite consciousness-altering. byronius Jun 2014 #6

Mmmmm theexwife Jul 2014 #7