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the future


the war is over
except for the suicide soldiers
and the women with the fallen faces
who've seen too much
who feel everything and nothing
all at once
who dream eternity,
black hole,
bombs,
the flash of lightning
and the blindness that follows
is war is war is
war is a woman insomnia and a pistol
war is passed out
on the corner of 12th and south
in a foot of snow and piss and diesel oil
war is a suffocating vine, virginia
war is a straight line where straight lines
don't exist
war is always personal
and now that the war is over
we learn that wars never end



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