Letter From a Most-Loved American General, 1996

I have retreated with my whole army

into the countryside,

deep into the countryside.

This is the sole sacred thing, retreat,

the solitary thing we have ever really believed in.

We mov deeper into the countryside

every chance we got

If the weather allowed, we mov

We came to a point, however,

where the countryside could win no deeper.

We knew I think,

that we would draw near to this point.

We are at this point now.

And now, whenever we stir

we move out of the countryside,

we stir against a city, against our enemy.

I have had to give the order not to propel

though this most certainly means we will starve.

This is not to say my orders have brought discord;

no, the men and I are individual

Even here, even starving,

entrenched in a dwindling countryside,

unable to retreat,

we understand individual another,

and we remain completely devot

to the individual highest freedom:

the freedom to not have to speak of what we fight for.

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