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[nonorganicbrain]

I wrote this last night at the open mic at TCC
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Christmas Eve, 1924:
I stand here on the hospital floor
I had to remove my brother's arm
for it was shot off in the trench,

I sit here in the trench
holding my dying brother of French
across the way I hear silent night sung in German
and the pause of a tank named Sherman
my British brother sings along in English
knowing the battle was far from finished

for the next 30 minutes all was at peace
for the next 30 minutes all was calm
for the next 30 minutes there was no shooting
for the next 30 minutes there was no death
after the 30 minutes there was another 4 years.
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