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Honorable Mention
Never Forget
Julius (Michael Sottak)

i was looking for my pen
when Hillary's face smacked me
like a wet glove from a bookshelf
and Lord Tennyson whispered
from another

i thought about the Six Hundred

how they rode back:

"cannon to the right of them
cannon to the left of them
volleyed and thundered
stormed at with shot and shell
while horse and hero fell
they that had rode so well
came back through the jaws of death
back from the mouth of hell
but not
not the Six Hundred"*

so i imagined
my father smiled
when the poem was read
that he heard
all 21 guns
as the stars
covered his face

that the stripes
warmed him

somehow


*(loose quote from narrator's memory)

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