#AmericanWriters
Never trust a white man, Never kill a Jew, Never sign a contract, Never rent a pew. Don’t enlist in armies;
A porcupine skin, Stiff with bad tanning, It must have ended somewhere. Stuffed horned owl Pompous
The only man I ever loved Said good bye And went away He was killed in Picardy On a sunny day.
So now, Losing the three last night, Taking them back today, Dripping and dark the woods . . .
Soldiers never do die well; Crosses mark the places— Wooden crosses where they fell, Stuck above their faces. Soldiers pitch and cough and twitc…
The age demanded that we sing And cut away our tongue. The age demanded that we flow And hammered in the bung. The age demanded that we dance
Desire and All the sweet pulsing aches And gentle hurtings That were you, Are gone into the sullen dark.
There are never any suicides in th… No successful suicides. A Chinese boy kills himself and i… (they continue to place his mail i… A Norwegian boy kills himself and…
In the rain in the rain in the rai… Does it rain in Spain? Oh yes my dear on the contrary and… The dancers dance in long white pa… It isn’t right to yence your aunts
They sucked us in; King and country, Christ Almighty And the rest. Patriotism,
Workingmen believed He busted trusts, And put his picture in their windo… 'What he’d have done in France!' They said.
Drummed their boots on the camion… Hob—nailed boots on the camion flo… Sergeants stiff, Corporals sore. Lieutenant thought of a Mestre wh…
If my Valentine you won’t be, I’ll hang myself on your Christma…
Some came in chains Unrepentant but tired. Too tired but to stumble. Thinking and hating were finished Thinking and fighting were finishe…
