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[rayheinrich]

Oh, I see, of course, silly me. Er...US Army Corps of Engineers. Right. Well, it is no longer languishing so that's alright. Punctuation might help.
Best,
tectak

Addenda:

She dumped him so he ditched her.

Simplified explication:
A loves B
B loves A
B stops loving A
A still loves B
A writes poem
'face' is B
'water' is love
'year/next' is eternal love
A and B are too young to kill

The poem is punctuated using line breaks, white space, and syntax.

'Red' isn't red, it's a word that symbolizes red.
Punctuation marks aren't punctuation, they're an attempt to
symbolize punctuation.

Written language started as an attempt to preserve a record of
spoken language. Punctuation marks were an attempt to record the
effects of pauses and intonation.

Writing has never been very good at recording speech, but it has
evolved to the extent that speech isn't very good at expressing
writing.

Love poems have never been very good at either.
Love poems don't symbolize love, they symbolize love poems.
Love, on the other hand, does symbolize love poems.

The US Army Corps of Engineers has never been very good at earth-moving.
Earth-moving, on the other hand, does symbolize the US Army Corps of Engineers.