Selected Poems by Carl Sandburg

Author:Carl Sandburg
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2022-05-18T00:00:00+00:00

Forgotten Wars

Be loose. Be easy. Be ready.

Forget the last war.

Forget the one before.

Forget the one yet to come.

Be loose and easy about the wars

whether they have been fought

or whether yet to be fought—

be ready to forget them.

Who was saying at high noon today:

“Is not each of them a forgotten war

after it is fought and over?

how and why it came forgotten?

how and what it cost forgotten?

and was he there at Iwo Jima, Okinawa

or places named Cassino, Anzio, the Bulge?

and saying now:

“Let the next war before it comes

and before it gets under way

and five or six days sees its finish

or fifty years sees it still going strong

—let it be now a forgotten war.

Be ready now to forget it.

Be loose, be easy now.

The next war goes over in a flash—or runs long.”

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