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Chaos Reigns

Poetry Off the Shelf

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The Parallels Between Top Gun and Hidden One

Hollywood movies that glorify war are like top gun black hot down Pearl Harbor. In hidden one of poems do the exact opposite when they are describing war it is as if war has no agents only victims. The soldiers of war appear in the exaltation as men who are being led in chains before inana while the wind fills the squares where they used to dance. That is the closest you get to actual human agents of warfare in the moment in which they are disempowered. And so war becomes this machinery that is impersonal and powered by anybody we would say is being powered by the military industrial complex.

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