In the old United States always
there were pictures on the wall
of presidents in oval
Washington and Lincoln
in the drear light of Winter
and we were given
we students of February
to know they were great
and we and our timelessness
second-best at best
our space race
our arms race
our mutually
assured destruction
our dominoes
our Vietnam
well, that was our Vietnam
in the old United States always
we were given to know
we students in February
that the winter of our discontent
was second best at best
to the wars of the men
in their oval portraits
defining moments
unlike our sour February
that it was our Vietnam
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