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The Vets Are Here

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We thought the vets had all come backto live in principality.Instead we find that many vetscannot discern reality.We thought the vets would all be home,inside their homes with family.Without the need for deadly dreamsor the use of vile profanity.Though many of the vets came hometo live in clear neutrality,several more make up the core of the nation's criminality.Some are hiding out the hate they feel for blatant fallacy,while others hide out in the woods untrusting in totality.At intersections you can see thembegging in humility.And mostly we just treat them allwith utter incivility.A few have died while on the street;the headstones mark finality.While some, I know, are far awaylocked up in their insanity.The dead, the living, crazed and sanemake up our new plurality.We meld in with the mainstreamof today's mixed-up society.4/10/99 Written August 27th, 2001 © on Aug 27 2001 02:47 AM PST   0 • 9

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"We thought the vets had all come backto live in principality.Instead we find that many vetscannot discern reality.We thought the vets would all be home,inside their homes with family.Without the need for deadly dreamsor the use of vile profanity.Though many of the vets came hometo live in clear neutrality,several more make up the core of the nation's criminality.Some are hiding out the hate they feel for blatant fallacy,while others hide out in the woods untrusting in totality.At intersections you can see thembegging in humility.And mostly we just treat them allwith utter incivility.A few have died while on the street;the headstones mark finality.While some, I know, are far awaylocked up in their insanity.The dead, the living, crazed and sanemake up our new plurality.We meld in with the mainstreamof today's mixed-up society.4/10/99..."

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