An Immoral Story by Tim O’Brien

Áine on April 24th, 2005 filed in Random Poems

A true war story is never moral.
It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue,
nor suggest models of proper human behavior,
nor restrain men from doing things men have always done.

If a war story seems moral, do not believe it.
If at the end of a war story you feel uplifted, or if
you feel that some small bit of rectitude has
been salvaged from the larger waste, then you
have been made the victim of a very old and
terrible lie.

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