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Entry: The Robinson Jeffers-Charles Bukowski Connection Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/the_robinson_jeffers_charles_bukowski_connection#11552 Post contents: Here is another one by Jeffers. He could see what was coming and refers to his own prediction, just after American entry into the 2nd World War that American would win that war (he even predicted the year, 1945, in which the war would end. But he also saw more wars in future for the dying Republic. We Are Those People I have abhorred the wars and despised the liars, laughed at the frightened And forecast victory; never one moment's doubt. But now not far, over the backs of some crawling years, the next Great war's column of dust and fire writhes Up the sides of the sky: it becomes clear that we too may suffer What others have, the brutal horror of defeat— Or if not in the next, then in the next—therefore watch Germany And read the future. We wish, of course, that our women Would die like biting rats in the cellars, our men like wolves on the mountain: It will not be so. Our men will curse, cringe, obey; Our women uncover themselves to the grinning victors for bits of chocolate. Robinson Jeffers Sent at: 2008 09 07