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Alan Dugan - Fabrication Of Ancestors
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For old Billy Dugan, shot in the ass in the Civil War, my father said.


The old wound in my ass 
has opened up again, but I 
am past the prodigies 
of youth’s campaigns, and weep 
where I used to laugh 
in war’s red humors, half 
in love with silly-assed pains 
and half not feeling them. 
I have to sit up with 
an indoor unsittable itch 
before I go down late 
and weeping to the storm- 
cellar on a dirty night 
and go to bed with the worms. 
So pull the dirt up over me 
and make a family joke 
for Old Billy Blue Balls, 
the oldest private in the world 
with two ass-holes and no 
place more to go to for a laugh 
except the last one. Say: 
The North won the Civil War 
without much help from me 
although I wear a proof 
of the war’s obscenity.
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