The following link is to a silly little poem I had published in The New York Times in 2002. It is not profound, by any means, but what I still love about it today is that it is, in fact, quite prophetic. I had absolutely no idea–couldn’t even fathom the thought–that five years later, I would enlist in the United States Army and prepare to deploy for Operation Iraqi Freedom. But what really gets me is that the poem was published on October 28th, which also happened to be my exact date of entry into the military. It kind of gives me chills every time I read it because now I know the answer to the question the poem ends with …
