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Previous Challenge Entry (Level 4 – Masters)
Topic: Week(s) (02/10/11)

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• TITLE: Stupidity | Previous Challenge Entry
  By Benjamin Graber
  02/11/11
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We’ve played the games of boys
For six days;
Like tin soldiers we’ve marched silently,
Without a sound
Except the rhythmic beating
Of our metallic feet.

We let our banners wave
As we encircled Jericho,
As if we could scare
The veterans behind the walls
With a display of color
And silence.

Like little boys, we make our moves,
Believing war is just a game,
And end up looking as stupid
As a toddler
Who marches in his Daddy’s boots.

Today the game continues;
We will make our rounds seven times,
And then when our little legs get tired
We’ll stand and shout at last,
And then, like little boys,
We’ll run to the walls,
Pound them with our fists,
And, oh so stupidly,
Die beneath their shadows
With real arrows in our backs.

Like little boys, we play our games,
But war is the business
Of men.
Instead of wasting time
Playing tin soldiers,
We should join our minds
Like men,
To probe the weaknesses
Of this fortress
And strategize until we find
The most effective way to give our blood
Like men.

Instead of playing ring-around-the-rosy
Until our heads get dizzy,
We should prepare weapons of siege
Like men,
So we can knock down those walls
Like men,
So when the right time comes
We won’t be forced to beat them
With our fists.

What stupidity
To play the games of boys!
’Tis stupid
To throw away our lives
In needless waste
Because a stupid general
Never grew up.
’Tis stupid
To trample common sense
Through the endless marching
In our fairy tales.

Oh, stupid general,
Who leads a stupid people,
What do you expect to happen
When you shout your lungs out
At those walls?

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