from Small Wars Manual
14.1
(Supervision of Elections: General)
If the President of the United States overturns
an election if he overturns majority rule
if the President of the United States
overturns a teacup a hurricane if he
overturns Mexico and the division
of present from past if he railroads
a virus through the House if
the police cannot be depended upon
and the golden rule is rescinded
by executive order then the manual
is not a manual but a map found
in an attic the continents too
large too close or missing entirely
the shorelines garbled and
beset by serpents
4.5
(Training: Training Programs and Schedules)
The too-long-
didn’t-read version:
peacetime
is the training period
war is the performance.
My children
have never seen war.
It is also true
that they have never lived
without it.
1.5
(Introduction: The Chain of Command)
on the shores of an un-
familiar country
trust the impulse
for analogy
each
toeach
and else to elsewhere
to call the world an ocean is
an error
the world
is an island
and you are half ship-
wreck half siren
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