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The Poetry Society of Virginia: Robert Young
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this ain’t your daddy’s war
in august, i dropped the fat man on nagasaki because the cloud cover was too thick on kokura where it was supposed to go and i had to do something with it and the president says it will save lives
then i turned my daddy over in his grave and asked him if that one was his and he says my grampa said the same thing to him back in the old country when war used to be mano a mano
my grandson is learning to talk i had a dream about him I grabbed for the toy gun in his hand gramps, it's mine. mine i told him he didn’t understand i kissed him on the cheek
there is only one man and he is everyMan there’s only one war and it is everyWar there’s only one bomb and it is everyBomb
requiescat in pace
By Robert Young
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