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JP's avatar

Your anti-war poems are some of my favorite poetry on substack. Keep it up!

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Josh Datko's avatar

Thank you JP, very kind and encouraging to say. I appreciate it!

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Benno's avatar

That second stanza was intense, I had to stop and come back to it! Strong poem!

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Josh Datko's avatar

Well, if it ruins hot dogs for you -- consider it a nutritional gift :)

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Alexander's avatar

It's hard not to read this in your actual voice!

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Josh Datko's avatar

It's funny you said this. Because as I was reading this back I feel like there could be a version of this that "flows better." And I tried a version where I tweaked it a bit and came back to the original.

So there could be a version of this that is "better" but I did feel it was very "in tune" when I clicked publish. But maybe that's what we should be trying for anyway.

Thanks Alexander!

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Joseph Coleman's avatar

Chilling

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Josh Datko's avatar

Thanks Joseph. Some of these older ones I felt I was getting this anger out. It's still there to a degree, but I feel inclined to make it a main focus. Or it just manifests in other ways.

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