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A Poetry tDrop
by Wetdryvac
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Training
August 5, 2005
it ��s raining, isn ��t it, raining again
all your people saying the rain is cold and training can hold
that ��s when you realize �� no-one ��s trained to love the training
no-one knows the joy of the new, stuck familiar in place
each face glued to the known, no acumen to call their own
no something different, exciting gain
so give me a moment, I ��ll tell you the training life
weaving into the fix, not better, best �� but better
every waking moment
when I learned to fire a gun
I had to unlearn power, had to know the line where people died
that I dragged it with my arm, had to learn the cleaning
had to use the rod and cloth, had to gain the feel of machining
each tool no more or less important
when I shot the sight in, it was terrible and long
the difference between a hundred mechanical adjustments
and one motion putting the round in
when I learned to store my empties, when I built the catching bag
the difference was non-existent, one more tool, and one more mechanism
mounted on, felt for in the balance
and when I learned to type, each letter without looking
just another tool, and words, each as possibly fatal
as steel jacket
sure, the gun is fun, and you get that sense of power
but the tool could be a mower and the target a clean lawn
the blank could be of paper, cleaning of the keyboard
and the word a sweeper ��s weapon on the fields of the dawn
and sure, the gun is fun, and you get such sound and motion
but the training is an ocean, so much more to train upon
your people, tell them this then
difference is consequence, be it careful safety or killer
each learning process under fire, each process short of funeral pyre
made for moving on, power not of fire-power
but of taking in new operation, defense a station in the making
forsaking nothing in the hour, always absorbed into the fire
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