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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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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 (more...)
 

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It is beyond shame by mary-ann on Friday, Apr 20, 2007 at 6:41:04 PM
We ALLOW it by Rafe Pilgrim on Friday, Apr 20, 2007 at 9:13:33 PM