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By Jack Joseph Smith
The Case Of Compliance
The level has no hammer to tap
To make sound the concrete or refactory
No watch across stones for a fisherman's
No tap on the brain for a prisioner of war
No exucation to do or wait for
No river lost to a buddy
No soul gone
Just grevience unspent
Just grammer school as a nip
Just a little to late
For Roosevelt and radio to die
Or not watch Vietnam like Bruce Mortan,
The first and the last helicopter nerd
From witch these bravest of men,
would go in horror
from the knife fight
ready to ensue
between the loss of
a father or a son
and there is no metaphor
or likeness NOW
for I am struggling
across this floor in blood
to get this poem done