Today @the Deadly Writers Platoon – we have a new Coach – Julia: we did not scare her away, though at least one of our Veterans are worried we will. 

So today, besides Julia, we had Adam who was here busy writing before all of us, we had Rick, Allen – he may have been there at Wellness Works before everybody as i think he is a volunteer, we had Devora, and Eric – as well as you know who! 

Here is what i did in our therapy group – it helps me and i am certain it helps other Veterans 

The span of life

Prompt from – Robert Frost – (1936) Julia brought this in.

The old dog barks backward without getting up. I can remember when he was a pup.

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When i was told to shut up

It was not a verbal command

It was the taking of my life

There i lay in the dirt

The sand was still blowing

And throwing they were aspersions

Nobody there to save me

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I was taking my mental anguish to the next level

Heard they all had shovels

Digging me a whole to rot in

Dinner had not even begun

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Spun were the words that they said

Years of controverting examples my character

As well as years of controverting examples their character

But you had to look behind their facades

I mean closer

And if you cared to look closer behind the exterior of me

You too would find – everything that you seen in public with some of the deeper struggle

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O.K. I never seen any of them when they were a pup – in dog years

Maybe briefly –

And me as a pup, i have nobody to tell me the nuances lost to my speak

But as a young one i was already this impecunious philanthropic soul

This in part is what they stole with their backward barks sanctioned by the corrupt

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I can hear it all coming to paper – i need the ghost writer every day – someone who can be part of the life i am hoping to live

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Level the playing field will you

From the 10 years stolen where i was graved

Part of that system where they try daily to enslave

Not just for labor

But for page to page

Taking every bit of the chapters

Put to rage

Rage gifted to the prevailing falsities

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Bark motherfuckers bark

The leash is coming.

16.09.21 on 12/04/18

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