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Brittany Leigh
Poems
Feb 2010
Sons
mommies teach your baby boys
to smile at the teeth of the war machine
and not to cry when those teeth
grind them into bits
daddies tell your smart little sons
to go and fight for the cause
because, well just because
that’s what brave little boys do
do as you’re told and not as you think
forget what might be right and wrong
remember what keeps you alive
come back broken and different
and not the least bit yourself
but just tell yourself,
at least my parents are proud.
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