A Passing Grade? Poem by Stanley Cooper

A Passing Grade?



Just a boy
In a soldier suit
We taught him
Discipline
We taught him
How to kill
We taught him
How to survive

Well disciplined
He passed the killing test
If here today
Would he believe
Two out of three
A passing grade?

Stanley Cooper
Thursday, September 22, 2011
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