We went into the Valley of Elah
looking for victory and reasons to carry on ,
when we got there those reasons had gone ;
they’d quietly slipped away
leaving us with nothing more to say ;
when we got back
we didn’t recognise ourselves ,
we looked at our faces in the mirror
that only showed someone else ;
all our words too had their meaning changed
for something that we couldn’t understand ,
and we who were born here
became strangers in our own land .
MYSTIC N ENCHANTING
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Alienation / Alien Nation by louis kasatkin
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My literary life is flat when I haven’t read a louis kasatkin poem lately… as always a masterpiece of restraint and revolution