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Date Posted: Sun, Sep 26 2004, 5:31pm PDT
Author: Darren Olsen
Subject: We stand in our civilian clothes...

Dandelions in bullet holes
we stand in our civilian clothes
on blankets laid out on a lawn
clouds of rain will all move on
and when the mist clears you will see
all of our names on a marquee
across the ocean the same day
and then washed ashore a block away


He'd handled his first day in this alien society with a great deal of gusto, and a permissable amount of forgetting about the past years, the other places, the other faces, those nights of longing, and so was back for more torture. It wasn't rain that ushered him in this time, however, but an almost obnoxiously glaring sun - his hair in the same fuzzy shape it had been in after the rain nonetheless. A cutout of his physique splashed across the floor as the young man, dealt out in a "Vote or Die" tshirt and his trusty faded corduroys and sneaks stood in the door a moment, prepared for what horrible memories and mental attacks might come his way, but found the sun to be a suitable bodyguard, faithful and forceful, keeping away anything undesirable. A small smile flickered across the twenty-something's full lips and he took one smooth step into the room, breathing a mental sigh of relief.

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