she'd paid cash .. quietly

her confusion had been brief

now she knows too much

standing on the thin line

she thinks back .. government cared

so they'd said .. back then

when they'd enlisted

her hippie husband for war

reality crashed down

communism lives

no other need for real proof

husband .. sacrificed

sane became richer

exploiting foreign oil boom

now she dreams .. a gun

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