James Edward Lee Sr. Poet Free verse

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Nineseventeenpm

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

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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?

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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...

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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??


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6/30/18   ©2018

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