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Thread #163684 Message #3909694
Posted By: bobad
05-Mar-18 - 09:27 PM
Thread Name: BS: If Africa had not suffered Colonialism
Subject: RE: BS: If Africa had not suffered Colonialism
E.E. Cummings Told Him
A poem on the price of war.
plato told
him:he couldn’t
believe it(jesus
told him;he
wouldn’t believe
it)lao
tsze
certainly told
him,and general
(yes
mam)
sherman;
and even
(believe it
or
not)you
told him:i told
him;we told him
(he didn’t believe it,no
sir)it took
a nipponized bit of
the old sixth
avenue
el;in the top of his head:to tell
him