Journal Entry – Poetry – November 11, 1978 – East Village

The battlefields crossed the world

Suez, Flanders, the Dardenelles, Tannenberg, Africa, Asia

1914-1918

Sarajevo to Versailles

Tear gas, machine guns, ditches, airplanes, poison gas, tanks

Death in a thousand fields
Gallipoli, Verdun, the Somme

The slaughter.

Nation’s will, Emperor’s greed, Man’s strength versus an industry geared to blood

Now empire’s gone

Although will millions of yooung men and women

The War to End all Wars.

If only for one day

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