Short Stateside Poems

She'd waited so long
  Her love remained strong

Her man sent overseas
  She stateside, ill-at-ease

The lives of so many claimed
  or wounded or maimed

Now just three days to go
  Her nerves on edge and it showed

Two nights without sleep
  Tissue's tears in a heap

Then came the long-awaited call ~
  He'd been the last man to fall...

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           The V12 purred as the fireboat ran
easy outpaced the coastguard man
      this time; 
   last time, bullets blazed
    so what;
the price was raised
  waiting on the rum line for a good tide
      duty-free; it goes stateside.
They can’t catch us 
          we’re fast and sleek
who’s gonna bother at 
      30 bucks a week?
seven hundred k I made this year
 1920, and running is the gear!...

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