Transcendental Sonnet #1171:
Or Maybe She Chose
I almost won the lottery to go to Vietnam
The only lottery one lost to win
The one my friends and I all prayed to lose
My father was the one who knew the bayonet the bomb
And also poetry
But he never knew me
He would have liked my life to end before it could begin
My mother did not have the right to choose
Or maybe she chose
Now only God knows
So they stopped the clock at zero
And I never got to go
Not a military hero
But then we will never know
+Steven Curtis Lance
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