Salt Modern Poets
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"The Lesson" - When I was younger I flew a fighter plane in the First World War. I was tougher than the Red Baron and a master of dogfights above the lines. Soon though my teacher grounded me and began to change things around. 'Write a hundred lines,' she'd say, over and over again. I followed her command. I guess it must've been something I did or said, I didn't understand at the time. I was just happy doing what she wanted: a close mapping of enemy lines.