Promise NEW BOOKMilitary AssociationMilitary branch: MarinesRank: Conflict: VietnamStart Year: Total years of service:Contact DetailsFirst Name: DanielMiddle Name: Last Name: PaicopulosPhone Number: 760-799-2221Mobile Number: Address: 11957 Adorno PlCity: San DiegoState: CAZip Code: 92128VAMC: Writing Or Design SubmittingPoemWriting TextPromiseThere is this book which has beenfollowing me around for weeks now.Actually, not following so much asaccompanying, fitting nicely inmy hand, or atop my desk,in the room I sometimes share with a cat.The book is important.That’s why I bought it. It is about hope, and also about the mind, about laughing at, but not making an enemy of the latter.I say that’s what it is about,but I don’t know for sure,only what the dust jacket blurb says.I can’t seem to get by the introduction,not in my room, nor outside,heck, not even at the library,even though it’s open again.My core seems obdurate inits resistance to change, or growth.I will say that, pages unread,that book seems still to behaving an impact. I think about hope all the time.A good thing, sinceI have forever friends who will not see year’s end.In the greater scheme of things,I’m a mighty small fish in a very big pond, or, at most,like one of those salmon,returning to their place of creation,encountering resistance at every turn. I hope this hope thing is not overrated. The book is heavy,the thoughts too, sometimes.

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