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Dwight Cathcart writes on politics, publishing, gay literature, gay people, and his four novels, Ceremonies, Winter Rain, Race Point Light, and Adam in the Morning.

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Armistice Day

2019-11-30 by Dwight Cathcart Leave a Comment

Dulce et Decorum Est BY Wilfred Owen Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs, And towards our distant rest began to trudge. Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots, But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind; Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots Of gas-shells … [Read more...]

Filed Under: War poets, War poets, Wildred Owen, Writing Tagged With: Armistice Day, government lies and the LGBTQ community, Siegfried Sassoon, That old lie, the lies of the government, War poetry, War poets, Wilfred Owen

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