Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, OAK LEAVES COME QUITE CHEAP, by A. A. IMBERMAN


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OAK LEAVES COME QUITE CHEAP, by                    
First Line: Here lies giovanni
Last Line: Sic transit gloria mundi.
Subject(s): Death; Italy; Soldiers; Tyranny & Tyrants; War; Dead, The; Italians; Dictators


Here lies Giovanni,
Husband, father and soldier,
Sent to bomb Ethiopians
Who had neither harmed nor molested him,
Then brought to shed the blood of Spaniards
Who neither knew nor hated him.
Here lies the husband, his tearful wife behind,
Died while giving death to other men and their wives.
Here lies the father, gone from his young,
Slain while shooting other children's fathers.
Here lies the soldier who for an Italian dictator fought blindly,

So that other men may be crushed by a Spanish dictator.
Here lies Giovanni,
Whose life began under the decrees of a tyrant,
Whose life was ordered by the whims of a despot,
Whose life was sapped, because dictators need human blood to consummate their pacts.
Sic Transit Gloria Mundi.





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