And that, my friend, is why our god invented PTSD

Do you really think you’re the most fucked-up veteran in this park right now?
Really?
Key my car?
That’s for infants.
And as all us veterans know
Infants are just ‘tards in tutus.

I’m gonna give you and your daughter
AIDS your grand-son
Zika your grand-daughter
Ebola
A terrible fall
Your call.
I know a guy.
Choose yer poison,
This morning please,
I’ve got business to conduct at Denny’s.

I’ll bend you end-over-end for my own ends
Well, and for the children, for,
If not you, not for me,
Who will think of the children?
Word is you’ll come come come
A brain-bucket of GI scat
When Little Jonny learns to kickstart that
Mo-Gas grounding rod augur up your ass.
“Hey, Little Johnny,
Finger his beard
Pull his GI Joe string
Sounds cool to hear the echo in this guy’s guts
They call that the GI tract, son,
Not everyone gets to die with one.”

Oh, not the tunnels story again …
you fuckstick fuckstuck infant rodent
you who left your cock and your government-issue terrier
stinking up the tunnels of the Cu Chi Vientiane;
well
at least explains
the squirt gun in your cargo pocket for them clueless non-combatants

dance bitch dance …
recite my favorite t s eliot …
see that bull?
bitch, see that bull?
he’s got a set, ain’t he?
unlike someone I know
that mad professor w plenty o reasons
and them horns
that bulls got a set, ain’t he?
relax
it’s ok
nothing personal
he’s just another general needs to ass-fuck one of the men he’ll send to heaven & virgins this afternoon
no, nothing personal, compañero
and needs a little asteroid for to administer said ass-fucking to said, heavily-meth’d soldier
and well, I guess that soldier was you,
but unfavored-son you,
Mars gifted you not the deathblow,
not another hole,
only you back inside the wire wearing only your menses
mystery and wonder at the blood & shit squid-inking,
so shame shame only shame and the curse of coming home unharmed
unarmed
til the discovery of spray-paint for cattle dogs,
super-soakers for lines crossed,
key rings &
spaces in desperate need of enforcement

and your rodent-filled universe in need of sudden sodden cleansing, and
ah,
a deer needs the
cutting
down the
gutting
before another tragic
rutting,
like his his his,
like your mother’s own
no,
soldier,
there is no return home

shave that cum off your face
combat-park your shiny Silverado
face your forty-five
secretly hope to be found
be a good boy
sweet prince
buy us all a round

take that deep breath
and fail fail since that your bitter birth
fail to thrive
and blame that mother goose god
them barren orphanage nuns sold you

meet him
remember your manners, private
salute him
anoint
kurtsy
bow
kow-tow
how now
bow-wow
pow!
see,
there there
now

sleep the sleep of every contented barren nun

it’s time
it’s time
for your dog, to
harass cattle, to
scare miners, to
to eat his gun, to
blow out your last
silly mother goose sun;

as you assume the angle, take the petrol towel
like the old days up against The General’s Wall,
the shits, the blood at the bowels, sudden the loose
soon soon the sad cock rest against the ball
“Sargeant return his barrel-rag
he’s covered in carbon,
that’ll cost you a tooth of gold.”
Turret turns to you
“You,
wipe yourself you filthy scag,
vamoose
maricón
!”

and it’s your dog,
not you,
pulls the trigger identified friend, foe,
and you
imaginary
delusionary
dog-drug
brother-bested
tail-tucked
ass-fucked
chicken-hearted
GI,
Joe