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Alans at War

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Alan Siegel's Poem I Have a Rendezvous With Death

Alan Siegel was a genuine bohemian Alan Siegel he moved to Greenwich Village which is certainly Bohemian Central in America and then to Paris. He joined the foreign Legion of the French Army notoriously tough unit where as you may have guessed people who aren't French fight on behalf of France. Here comes the poem it's a war poem it couldn't be much more different from Alan Ross's MestecYou might say it is the harmonica to Mestec's atom bomb so it's a more romantic non-realist piece in the main I'll give you the first stand out see what you think of thisThis is Alan Siegel's poem I have a rendezvous with death

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