The best way to avoid the draft
Is to a be a coward
And hide from duty
And obligation
While the rest
Of your generation
Catches bullets
And wastes
Their youth
For fat old men
In Washington
Who wage war
Against other fat
Entitled
Politicians
In places
That feel far away
This is the way
You avoid the pain
And sacrifice
Of military obligation
By slinking
Through the shadows
Looking for excuses
To keep
You from battle
Building lies
Building a life
Unworthy of respect
You shun
Your brothers
And sisters
Willing to take
Your place
You shun life
And meeting
The challenge
Of being part of
Something greater
Then yourself
You value
Your selfish existence
You hoard your days
Many go the route
Of getting an education
Until they run out of degrees
And then seek public service
And suck on the tit of society
That spends other people’s
Lives like currency
Anyway
You look at it
To avoid the draft
You run
And look
For cracks
To crawl
Into
Like a cockroach
Scared
Of the light
Don’t look back
Dont regret
Because death
And combat
Are nightmares
You’d rather not face
All the while ignoring
The irony that everyday
You get closer
And closer
To your final moment
A moment nothing
Will keep away
Not avoiding a draft
Not boatloads of chemo
Not surgery
Or even denial
We all are forever faced
With the ether of death
No matter what
Death comes for us all
Drafted and
Undrafted alike
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