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Unread 03-21-2006, 10:04 AM
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KEB,

“A poem is sometimes pivotal to a movie, even if the movie isn't about the poem.” --A. E. Stallings

I had never thought of D. H. Lawrence as a poet before I saw the movie titled, “G. I. Jane” in which

Self-pity

I never saw a wild thing
sorry for itself.
A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough
without ever having felt sorry for itself.

was pivotal, in showing that the drill instructor was cultured.
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