We saw the conning tower first,
in the darkness of the deep.
A robotic submersible
Found the boat on its final sweep
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Formerly she'd sneak into my room,
and whisper things that only I could hear.
She‘d provide a fortunate turn of phrase
And I would craft the lyric sweet and clear.
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She whispered, "it is time for me to go".
So soft, I barely heard her words.
Her fight was gallant; these past few months,
Now she prepared to leave this world.
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Iwo was a bloodbath; that fact can't be denied.
We had twenty thousand wounded men and seven thousand died.
The fight was long and difficult against the entrenched foe.
(When the photograph was taken the fight had weeks yet left to go.)
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I knew a girl who wore dark clothes,
Who would not, could not, speak in prose.
She could, of course, declaim in rhyme,
For many hours at a time.
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The doctors all were taken aback
They had never seen a case like his.
They suspected a stroke had laid him low,
but knew not what to make of this.
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Emeralds green are my lover's eyes.
Her hair is golden as the sunrise.
We spread our blanket upon the earth
and joined beneath the bowl of stars.
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