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Not a title is an overdone title is a cliche is a cliche is spelled wronglier than this.

Did NOT a man
go to war
as a lover,
to NOT a war
he didn't believe in
and
knew
they couldn't win,
to suicide
of an already
NOT dying country,
broken and old,
and young again every year,
only to escape his life,
or did he go
because
he no longer
cared?
by
NOT
Mary Lee Settle, Know Nothing

I CARE.
SAID THE DO-GOODER
I write in all caps said the liar.
I write in negations, said Mary Lee Settle, of Know nothing publishing engeneererreerereeries.

Author notes

"Did a man go to war as a lover, to a war he didn't believe in and knew they couldn't win, to suicide of an already dying country, broken and old, and young again every year, only to escape his life, or did he go because he no longer cared?" --Mary Lee Settle, Know Nothing

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  • Symphony
    October 13, 2008
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    Man this was confusing to read, LOL, I had to go back over it a couple of times before I was content to say I had read it properly; interesting take on the prompt, also complicated and confusing - but, the ending, "by NOT mary lee" was gas intricate but well done!