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Con-fusion

  • Marilyn Armstrong challenged me to write a poem based on this quotation:


    “We are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.”

    –General Douglas MacArthur

    General Con-fusion

    If he advances while retreating,
    is throwing up just reverse eating?
    Can he freeze ice cubes by unheating?
    Is standing up simply unseating?
    I didn’t litter. I’m un-neating.
    When we press clothes, are we  de-pleating?
    He left , so are we now un-meeting?