The Paratrooper: A Sonnet

Wearers of the proud beret

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The Paratrooper

by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole

In your film I will not paraded be,
Nor with my comrades replay our capture,
With wooden arms, and so instill rapture
In you, our congenital enemy.
By all means throw me in your pit, and let
The waters close and drown—I will not act,
Nor will they, for human pride is a fact,
With…