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    In 3 sentences or less, summarize the key points of the document: Soldiers seek comfort and relief with local lovers during breaks from combat, resulting in unintended pregnancies and children born of war. Refugees flee towns and cities to makeshift camps in forests to escape violence, where couples embrace despite surrounding death, disease, and danger from the enemy. The poem explores the tragic legacy of war through unwanted children born from brief trysts and the constant fear under which refugees live in camps.

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    In 3 sentences or less, summarize the key points of the document: Soldiers seek comfort and relief with local lovers during breaks from combat, resulting in unintended pregnancies and children born of war. Refugees flee towns and cities to makeshift camps in forests to escape violence, where couples embrace despite surrounding death, disease, and danger from the enemy. The poem explores the tragic legacy of war through unwanted children born from brief trysts and the constant fear under which refugees live in camps.

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    CHILDREN OF WAR beating back the unknown,

    BY MYRNA PENA-REYES the ancient whisper,

    The legacy of war: their visitor, companion;

    Death, disease, babies. the same fear

    The first two, unavoidable that drives the invader, loveless,

    The third, indelicate, insidious. to ravage the land,

    Swollen with longing, executing nature’s order;

    soldiers on leave perpetuation of the strongest,

    seek comfort, relief engendering the vilest deed,

    in the fecund lovers women sown with the enemy’s seed.

    they desert again

    and again when they return

    to the killing.

    Fleeing town and city,

    refugees in makeshift campsites

    sheltered from dripping forest

    toddle, awake asleep,

    alert to movement.

    But casting out care, shame

    (the others –sleeping or pretending to?

    parturition … starvation … the enemy

    any moment at the door…),

    couples will embrace,

    stifle their moans

    pressing flesh into flesh,

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