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April 20, 2007 at 12:22:09

Poem: return flight

by Rafe Pilgrim Page 1 of 2 page(s)

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return flight

in perpetual migration

like monstrous ravens

from some obscene myth

come the night planes

from the East to Dover

shrieking to alight

then gaining unholy silence

while to gape their ebon maws

to disgorge their crated cargo

no bands blare

no mothers fathers wives

no pretty girls attend

not a camera no reporters

thus are our sons

returned to us

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Central High School of Philadelphia, University of Maryland, Syracuse University, University of Maine, Ursinus College, Air Force Intelligence (Washington D.C., Germany), Ford Motor Company, Philco-Ford Corporation, Eighth Day Gallery, Phi Kappa Phi, Romey Everdell Award for Journalism,(1988), Hole in one (1998), and struggling to find America ever since 2000.

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pledgetoimpeach.org Read Russian History to know how surely America is becoming a Dictatorship. If you dislike History, read the books by Aleksandr Solzhenitzen, and Dostoyevski. Read http://www.newamericancentury.org/ to see why we are losing America.Bush, Cheney, & Co want World Domination and Permanent Wars. When our own troops are killed and maimed, they consider it "acceptable collateral damage." They...

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mary-ann pledgetoimpeach.org Read Russian History to know how surely America is becoming a Dictatorship. If you dislike History, read the books by Aleksandr Solzhenitzen, and Dostoyevski. Read http://www.newamericancentury.org/ to see why we are losing America.Bush, Cheney, & Co want World Domination and Permanent Wars. When our own troops are killed and maimed, they consider it "acceptable collateral damage." They...

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It is beyond shame

far, far beyond shame that we ALLOW this evil administration to have control over our grief. To hide our murdered sons and daughters from sight of the Citizens of America as though it was a disgrace to die....

...it IS a disgrace to TELL the griefstricken families that their beloved sons, daughters, husbands, wives, fathers, mothers have died "for our freedom" THAT is where the disgrace lies!!

How such Evil men can call themselves "christians" is an outrage... it is Sacrilege!

http://pledgetoimpeach.org Join us today and let's clean these warmongers out - and don't stop with impeachment! They need to be tried and sentenced!!

by mary-ann (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 55 comments) on Friday, April 20, 2007 at 6:41:04 PM

Rafe Pilgrim, after "a life largely wasted on hard honest work," found himself a jungle of turkey oak, scrub pine and giant palmettos up a dirt road running east of Crystal River, Florida, which neither school busses nor the U.S. Postal Service dare to assay. Sharing a house of his own design with Spanky the cat, Darla a pit bull, and a foundling of mysterious breed named Alfalfa -- all collectively known as Our Gang -- he spends his time "productively: writing poetry, working for...

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Rafe PilgrimRafe Pilgrim, after "a life largely wasted on hard honest work," found himself a jungle of turkey oak, scrub pine and giant palmettos up a dirt road running east of Crystal River, Florida, which neither school busses nor the U.S. Postal Service dare to assay. Sharing a house of his own design with Spanky the cat, Darla a pit bull, and a foundling of mysterious breed named Alfalfa -- all collectively known as Our Gang -- he spends his time "productively: writing poetry, working for...

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We ALLOW it

Yes, we ALLOW it, to our shame. It is time to put the rascals out. The now Democratic majority that we voted for with such high hopes is incapable of the job and of our trust. Ut appears we need a third road.

........Rafe Pilgrim

by Rafe Pilgrim (28 articles, 0 quicklinks, 8 diaries, 36 comments) on Friday, April 20, 2007 at 9:13:33 PM