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Monday, May 26, 2025

"At the Barracks Gate" - poem

  

Lawrence Hall

Mhall46184@aol.com

Dispatches for the Colonial Office

 

At the Barracks Gate

 

 

“Underneath the lantern by the barracks gate”

 

-Lili Marlene

 

 

There were two lanterns at our barracks gate

After standing inspection for Cinderella Liberty

We passed beneath them to catch the Number 7 bus

Past Balboa’s eucalyptus trees, into downtown

 

Where sins of the flesh awaited our E-1 fantasies

But instead we went to Mass, found a coffee shop

Nervously walked along Lower Broadway

Tried desperately to look like old salts

 

Carefully stayed away from Lili Marlene

And ‘phoned our parents from the lobby of the U. S. Grant

A Shepherd's Path from the Mountain of La Salette - poem

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