great poem

http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~benjamin/316kfall/316ktexts/owendulce.html

it's called 'dulce et decorum est' by wilfred owen. i think it is beautiful. i fell in love with it last year. sorry i didn't read it at the poetry reading (i really wanted to, but sometimes circumstance overshadows want).

i'm sure some of you have read it before but it's a great poem no matter when you read it. i'm sure you all can see how this poem may or may parallel to today's situation in the u.s. (actually, ironically enough, it relates a little more to people outside the u.s. but ultimately because of what is happening in the u.s.).

another good poem of similar theme is 'the man he killed' by thomas hardy, but it relates more to themes of 'the things they carried' (haruko!). ok guys,

.loomoo.

.christopher.a.rodriguez.
on 27 september 2 003
@1503 est

...oh ps: sorry (if sorry is prudent) about that extremely long post on race, i didn't know it was so long when until i saw it published.