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1947 COLD WAR COLD HEARTS

By Dan Donlan, www.PoetryPoem.com/dandy1    Unlock all Features - Upgrade to Poetry Prime

I still had the same girlfriend
She still didn't know I existed
I carried on this one sided love affair
Long into Junior high
Later I read her obituary
Married three times all to alcoholics
and men who constantly beat her
Who is to figure about love?
Her brother and sister liked me
I had to befriend them to see her
America gives up China peace effort
Chinese Nationalist and communists
Just could not get along
--give peace a chance people
Gromyko criticized US Atomic policy
Henry Ford dies at age of 83
Us tornado kills 132,hurts 1,3o5 in Texas, Oklahoma
In the middle of the night we heard
the sputtering of an airplane engine
The whole house was shaking and we were sure
it had hit the roof of our house
It crashed in the yard of my future step-dads house
I don't remember how many were killed
But injured soldiers were all over his yard
All of India is stirred by religious Strife
Army takes over Nicaraguan regime
A new girl moved in next door
She didn't like me but her parents did
They asked if I would take her to and from school
Her boyfriend was older a school drop pout
He threatened me with a whip that I took from him
Told her parents I gave up the babysitting job
Later saw her she was nineteen burdened with three kids
Why was I always attracted to cute girls
Who were attracted to men who would abuse them
Britain grants independence to India and Pakistan
I say get you but--oxen out of Ireland
My wife's family are all English born and raised
She loves the Queen and king who is to figure?
Yeager breaks sonic barrier for the first time
Who would ever guess this boy would second pilot
For one time in a two pilot trainer plane
But then that is another story for another time







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