“Some Marines made fun of the fact that I had done plays and studied poetry, but then I won the award for physical training.”
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Firemen can do almost everything. You already trust them in life-threatening situations why not let them help you with your everyday problems, too?
The Homeland Security department doesn't have tasking authority in the intelligence community. They can ask for stuff, but they can't direct anything except inside their bureau.
Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket you put your life into it and make something out of that.
We don't attempt to have any theme for a number of the anthology, or to have any particular sequence. We just put in things that we like, and then we try to alternate the prose and the poetry.
