My US Marine Corp Greens

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    My US Marine Corp Greens

     I pulled them out not long ago
    My US Marine Corp Greens
    I began to think of Parris Island
    And a few other Marine Corp scenes
    The coat so old had grew some holes
    Those trousers are no longer in style
    I must have had a small head then
    My cover won't sit on my head by a mile
    My badges look dull, my ribbons near torn
    That's what these years have done
    I could have joined any Branch of Service
    But with the Marines, I feel like I won
    I'm proud to have been a US Marine
    And I've still got that MARINE IN ME
    I often think about when I got off that bus
    USMC PLT 149  June-Sept. 1973

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    Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

    Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) U.S. poet.

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