China Mieville  Three Moments of an Explosion

                                                       We were eleven and death couldn’t touch us.

eighteen he was immortal

  submitted to the Draft

served in-country one tour thirteen months Marines

upset his parents

they didnt want him to serve

                                You can utilise college deferment.

2-S  Im 1-A

               I think not

Never once caught an A in high school

                                          Besides

Competition will never get more realany keener 

they begged  seriouslybegged Pleease.

Christ It was good to be eighteen

                                         Out from under their thumb

       obviously

        survived

        immortal

   proofs in the pudding

       butterscotch 

2245,  Thursday,  23  7. 26

1526,  Monday,  27  7. 26

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Stones  Under My Thumb  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0asxTqf0NhE