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A Waste of Shame

Many of today's soldier-poets write about war by focusing on the particular and the personal

By JAMES A. WINN

The expense of spirit in a waste of shame
Is lust in action; and till action, lust
Is perjured, murderous, bloody, full of blame, …

The opening lines of Shakespeare's sonnet on the destructive power of sexual desire...

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