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 foughtâ
be ready to forget them.
Who was saying at high noon today:
âIs 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:
âLet 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
âlet it be now a forgotten war.
Be ready now to forget it.
Be loose, be easy now.
The next war goes over in a flashâor runs long.â
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