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Three Messages

Kurt Philip Behm

A Bigger Threat

Incompetence…
  much more dangerous than corruption
    —when skillfully applied

(Note To The President-October, 2013)

    A Greater Wrong

Within a lesser right
 there is a greater wrong
   —begging to get out

(Villanova Pennsylvania:  Watching the 60 Minutes
 Episode on Benghazi - October 27th, 2013)

      Implacability

As our resolve hardened
  —the viewing platform changed

  (Villanova Pennsylvania: October 28th, 2013)
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on October 05, 2018

Modified on March 12, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme X XXX X A XAX XB XX B
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 436
Words 60
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 1, 3, 1, 1, 3, 2, 2, 1
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Kurt Philip Behm

Longtime writer with twelve books in publication. Three of them Poetry. : The Death Of The Playground : The Sword Of Ichiban : Searching For Crazy Horse : Darkening Sun : An Anthology Of Perception-Vol's 1 & 2 : After Midnight : Sammy And Bumpers : The Fall City Mandate : Revenge Along The War Trail : Death from The Sky more…

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