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On the Resignation of the Executive Director
of a Certain Veterans’ Service Organization
Our leaders’ reputations decay in the corners
Of their star-spangled offices, curling up
Like fallen leaves wind-blown against a fence
Then writhing in the rubbish-fires of history
Their bubble reputations in their own mouths 1
Ephemeral as the grey and ashy smoke
Adrift among the vaporous lies that once
Scented the sewage of their resumes’
Our leaders call us comrades, shipmates, brothers -
From their forward positions on the 501C
1 Shakespeare, “The Ages of Man”
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