Young happy learning free
taken gone alone
boys grow to men
three to war
two beat
He wed before he left
then the dear john came
stayed on to die
but survived
beat up
Returned exeverything
without inner peace
friends not solid
loves fleeting
beat down
Aging long working hard
trying to live right
loving losing
lost it all
beaten
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Reviewed by Sandy Hoynacki (Reader)
Reviewed on July 31, 2012
How terribly heartbreaking..We write of many things, as writers. We leave our readers wondering about each bit of imagery that we paint. This is realistically written and sadly felt by me. You can draw your readers in easily....
Sad but poignant and true... ...the universal and timeless theme of men gone to war and those who have come back never to be well again. Thank you, Budd. Love and peace,
The story of the Vietnam vet. Very well written. Strikes home to this writer who avoided the whole issue by becoming 1Y and a non-entity all at the same time.
Robin Ouzman Hislop's poetry is certainly in dialogue with some of the key architects of the 'poetics of indeterminacy' – both the Modernist strands represented by the likes of Beckett and Stein, and the postmodernist strands represented, initially,
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