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TIME IS NO MSYTERY EACH AND EVERY SECTION HAS A SECOND AND IS HISTORY this is my confused telling of my destiny better dreaming of this calamity and I am a visionary or am I a visionary and do I have all my marbles for yet I've been here before in that moment in time this is where I wiz at then NINESEVENTEENPM 1917 I was in December 1 at Boys Town founding with Father Edward Flanagan? 1917 December 9 was with British forces under General Allenby got captured in Jerusalem OR WAS IT A DREAM IN A VISION NINESEVENTEENPM 1917 It was March 20th three American merchant ships were sunk US President Woodrow Wilson met with cabinet I sat in that As the President asks for war which will be inevitable OR WAS IT A DREAM IN A VISION Was what I was doing in those seconds Did I live it, dream it or imagine NINESEVENTEENPM 1917 a bust or boom year a lot of things happen in April US declares war on Germany, enters World War 1 I was there? April 6 the battle of Arras begins, I was there too? And on the 9th of April of 1917 Vimy Ridge in France was stormed by Canadian troops, threw me for a loop I was there too, was it or was it not a dream? NINESEVENTEENPM Munition factory explosion at Eddystone, Pennsylvania Kills 133 workers, this is where I was too? Tornadoes skills 211 in four days in the Midwest Jazz standard "Dark Town Strutters Ball by Original Dixieland Jass Band first record I heard this, I was there in... NINESEVENTEENPM 1917 race riots in East St. Louis Illinois persons killed between 40 to 200 reported, I was there 1917 August China declares war on Germany and Austria, September 3 1st night bombing of London by German aircraft History buff, marsh mellow ****, all these things maybe, may or may not be made up; truth be told, I wiz at the exact point of time No really? this is what I was doing on Did I live it, dream it or imagine Did I see it, receive it, or imagine it... NINESEVENTEENPM?? For Nineseventeenpm Poetry Contest Sponsored by:John lawless 6/30/18 ©2018

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