Spitball Army

Postcard is untitled on the front.

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Approximate playing time: 63 minutes.

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[Written to Alice in Frankfort, Indiana. Return addressed: Richard, Co. G, 2nd Bn., 1st Mar., c/o F.P.O., San Francisco, Calif. No postmark. Unshrunken V-mail stamped on front, “Passed by Naval Censor,” and initialed by the Censor.] [This letter previously appeared on spitballarmy.com on 25 December 2009.]

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Leagues below, grasses sway in cilia motion, vacillating, turning gray. At the surface, oil doublets waltz in a widening crescent.

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Clover kicker in dusty duds, bindle under his arm, drops a frogskin as he passes, talking a blue streak to no one in particular. • From the Wikipedia entry for “Wobbly lingo:” Wobbly lingo is a collection of technical language, jargon, and historic slang used by the Industrial Workers of the World, known as the […]

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This is the day…Christmas Day 1944. My first Christmas out of Indiana and our first Christmas – you in Indiana and me thousands of miles away.

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Shakespeare > Dickens > Twain > Jane Austen > Dr. Seuss > JK Rowling > Stephenie Meyer > mommy tweets

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Card is titled: “R.C.A. Building, New York City.”

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Tom Lehrer performing his “Vatican Rag” live in Oslo on 10 September 1967.

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I’m afraid I disagree with you on something you said in your last letter. Who cares whether your sentences are grammatically correct. Just so they are there.

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