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Now one of the things
that was happening

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at the time that poem was
written was the Vietnam War.

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And there are a number of poems.

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Many of us who lived through
that wrote a lot of bad poems,

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and a few that I hope aren't
so bad, about the Vietnam War.

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This is not one of
the more overt ones.

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There are a number
of them in the book.

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And I'm only going to read one.

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"The War."

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"There are statues
moving into a war

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as we move into a dream
we will never remember.

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They lived before us, but
in the dream we may die.

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And each carrying
one wing as in life,

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we may go down all the steps
of the heart into swamp water

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and draw our hands down
after us, out of the names.

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And we may lose one
by one our features.

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The stone may say goodbye to us.

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We may say goodbye
to the stone forever

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and embark, like a left
foot alone in the air.

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And here at last,
voices like small bells,

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and be drawn ashore, and
wake with the war going on."

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