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Entries to Express It In Eight from September 2020 to the present .
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October 23, 2023 at 11:40am
October 23, 2023 at 11:40am
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Ditch

You’re in the army now
you’re not behind the plow
you’ll never get rich
by digging a ditch
you’re in the army now.

Isham Jones 1917

You may have abandoned the ditch,
but here’s the saddening hitch,
you’ll still be digging deep -
enough to make you weep;
take heed of the date up there,
‘twas a year that you may be aware,
must have come as a terrible wrench
that the ditch had become a trench.



Line count: 8
Rhymed aabb
For Express It In Eight, 10.23.23
Prompt: Ditch.



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