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Aug 2017
So You’re Still Wearing Your Old Boonie Hat?

The old man asked.  Old man.  Maybe my age
“The original is carefully put away;
This one I ordered off the amazon”
His wooden stick was leaned against the pew

His grown children glanced disapprovingly
At two old dudes whispering during Mass
After the Eucharist, before the hymn
And the “Go in peace to love and serve the Lord”

He said he burned his Marine Corps sea bag
when he got home, but somehow you could tell
          it hadn’t helped
Written by
Lawrence Hall
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