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I go way back in
time for a while.

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Here's one on the poet who
was hired by Sparta to write

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their marching songs, Tyrtaeus.

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"Exhortation on
Military Themes."

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Courage, I say thus
exhorting myself,

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I say encouraging the way words,
the way the lame Tyrtaeus was

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supposed to have been
paid to say them,

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making marching songs to make
whole Spartans march away

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in whole faith.

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Quote, "now hear this
you sons of Hercules.

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God is on our side.

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So make believe black
death is white as day.

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Dress up your hair
for war and as

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for a dreamed of girl or boy.

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And throw your bodies away.

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Love and your deaths
are equal joys."

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But in his own crippled song to
himself on marching and lamely,

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he paid himself to say,
"Go it alone, kids.

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Run your own races.

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But when they say shit,
squat, and make faces."

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All these men later died.

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And his fame goes on in
all military routines

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while the counter
song and I just made

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of army phrases I
once overheard goes on

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in the enlisted men's latrines.

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