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>> I've gotten kind of annoyed
then two days I've been --

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here by--

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Overflied by air force planes
and guys are fooling around.

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So I think I want to say some --

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[ ? military songs ? ]

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Ok?

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[Inaudible] a free variation on a translation
from the Greek, that poet Archilochus.

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First sergeant.

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And I don't know Greek but this is a
kind of free variation on a translation.

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In times of peace and good government,
there is increase of fruits and ease,

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the house spider tries to spin her web from
the air raid helmet, to the gun in the closet

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but quits at the sound of
the morning vacuum cleaner.

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The sound father keeps his
weapons clean but locked away.

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The afternoon is broad, the evening
is a supper and nothing. At night

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The ex sergeant can wake from
honey hearted sleep and turn

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to his own wife in his own bed for a change.

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For solace against fears
of death by normal attrition.

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At 6 a.m., there are no cops knocking, his
only problem, besides the major ones of love,

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work and death, are noisy kids --

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-- playing out in the street before
breakfast and against the rules.

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A joke occurs and their laughter
starts, builds, and then goes

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up like a prayer against the rules.

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And for the time of peace and good
government, in which it happens,

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they could have lit the used Christmas tree.

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It goes up in fire but burns invisibly
in the clear morning air, while roaring.

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Then, he goes to work again instead
of war and the day stands as said.