"No Quit"
By Ben Fortier
What makes you think
I won’t crawl through shit
To get where I need to be?
It makes me think
Of all the times
This life - I’d want to cease.
But I am trusting
In the process
And there is no quit in me.
Native Rhode Islander and proclaimed Renaissance Man, Iraq vet He is the author of Stones of the Wooded Valley and The Silent Whispers of Omens. His latest book PHANTOMS, covers his deployment to Iraq in '06-'07. Ben is the 2024 recipient of the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation’s Robert A. Gannon award for original poetry dealing with Marine Corps Life.
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