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Can a poem…
By: James Aitchison
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On the eve of destruction,
can a poem stop a bomb?
On the eve of destruction,
can a rhyme save the world?
Words won’t win wars,
but they will survive,
and like graveyard crosses,
define the edges of civilization.
By: James Aitchison
On the eve of destruction,
can a poem stop a bomb?
On the eve of destruction,
can a rhyme save the world?
Words won’t win wars,
but they will survive,
and like graveyard crosses,
define the edges of civilization.