When I'm All Grown Up, Come What

It Was Different, Though, Knowing Something In Your Thoughts And Then Hearing It Confirmed, Made Real, Planted In The World Like A Tree

We Salvage What We Can, What Truly Matters To Us, Even At The Gates Of Despair.

The Military Preferred - Invariably - Those Who Could Be Readily Defined, Assigned Roles, Understood, And Controlled.

Lazy Poets Try To Elicit A Reader's Response With Words Designed To Tug At The Heart.

You Have To Be Afraid For It To Count As Bravery.