Best Cadres Poems

Tell no lies
Sing no songs
No false praise

Oppose without violence
One can always
Get used to war

Mask no difficulties
Claim no easy
Victories

Know what you want
Cringe at fear
Attack not defend

Learn to walk
Rapidly
Don't run

Do more 
Say less
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After three decades and a kicking more,
I deem it glaring waste and blatant loss
To play sad part of second servile fiddle
In elite cadres agleam with ersatz gloss.

Whatever charged scrolls attuned to pelt
With loaded deterrents deft souls that try,
I now must with age's ever-tightening belt
Stand to...

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