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Tour Of Duty

By despotis

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Tour of Duty   I've been called upon once, as I'm called upon now   to restore peace and order in a replenishing cycle   My duty, dear followers, is to eliminate   honor, pride, and all that was once sacred   Until the chaos is balanced   like a rickety teeter-totter with the bolts removed   I will never fail to succeed to relinquish my self respect   for the good of my people   I would skip barefoot in a windstorm,   through a field of push pins,   so that the sun may shine down upon your home and mind,   The Hoover Village of The Damned and choice blood relatives. Written March 10th, 1997 © on May 21 2001 02:02 AM PST   0 • 1

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