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Category: soldier
Croatia, 1999: Father speaks to ferns
“I fail to feed your children I, mere stripling at-struggle with scree.” Up from the valley grass to the saddle … More
Kosovo, 1999: Flowers have gone to children, every one
I forced did make the mountains a hard home for my children slender I forced on them such leaves and … More
Your bolt extractor eyes
captain, look at me your bolt extractor eyes jack, dog
jack, dog, dust
if only i knew that table rock that saddle gap i would lie me there until i too, turn to air … More
jack, dog, speaks at the captain’s funeral
them heathen took you, my captain, yes you, my captain my commander, my every thing my only thing yes, you, … More
jack, dog, awakes (my sky fall down)
my sky collapsed like a continent my voice broke in that thin air before you up-seen, then carbine-down those … More
ISIS carpetbaggers gone-wild
Bag of: man-on-boy adultery, of brother-v-brother slaughter Scout-leader spread like goat-butter Tenderfoot tethered, belly-down Bag of Al-Sadr, of it is … More
Airborne refuses peace pipe, reach for gulping exhaust
Airborne refuses peace pipes, reach for gulping exhausts”breathe, soldier, breathe, keep the dime, on the, sightpost”Out the tailpipe in the … More
Out the tailpipe in the mouthpipe
Joe, NPO
cloverleaving through the night cleaving unto what’s right seething, disbelieving: they chickens they goats “don’t trust a man with a … More
Young lieutenants at End-Evening-Nautical-Twilight
180 miles east of Los Angeles’ pointless summers ran shaven, heady, lieutenants low-spark’d, high-heel’d, bat-faced wayward boys, they counted coup … More
Chattering like flustered magpies
Chattering like flustered magpies We slave for our supper Meet renowned thinkers Read of Stalin and Turks and Ottomans with … More
At this goat-fuck of a gallows
At this goat-fuck of a gallows, Preside prime-time vengeance Gassed kurds be damned With shit-stained korans Today we dispatch the … More
Sharia, Baklava
Sharia-to-go: All the justice she can affordAll the mercy afforded her the lash Render unto herThe exhaust, the cataract of … More
All these years, praying to the wrong rock? Doubt not the geometers of spiders and gods
Doubt not the geometers of spiders and gods They’ve directed us to the incorrect rock So we pray the … More
Welcome to the wood-chipper (ded to ZdlR)
Take your mayor w you Your pimps Your whores Your civil engineers Your baseball scores “Welcome to the wood-chipper” … More
Abandon. Azimuth. Now.
Take your mayor w you Your pimps Your whores Your professors Your baseball scores “Welcome to the wood-chipper” Same … More
My brother was killed tending his hives
Artillery among the apiaryBeekeeper become bullet-catcher
Mohammed’s maggots
Meddlers of the new mathMaggot distillersPockets filled with gum-drop gods, marked “Distribute to youth” smile, “Say cheese!” Alchemists of the … More
Oh, sure, your soldiers salted cicadas
Oh, sure, your soldiers salted cicadas As with our poppies Nonetheless We, scorpions We expect a yield
Cicadas n otro sacrifices
Oh, sure, you salted cicadasWe, scorpionsWe, expect a yield We harried hornets to hysterics to a blind hate We poisoned … More
Raised among pomegranates
We harry hornets to hystericsWe poison scorpions w their own eggsThis generation raised among pomegranates must die
Tailing that black dog them game trails very black night
In Lightfoot, Virginia Those child-bearing days That black dog and I rode them game trails out back, lights-free, blackout-drive She … More
Daughter yours, bolt-action god ours
The breech, the block, the betrothal Your sunless daughter Our bolt-action god What’s done is done Inshallah
Ally-dog and I rode the game trails out back, lights-free, blackout-drive
In Lightfoot, Virginia Those child-bearing days Ally-dog and I rode the game trails out back, lights-free. She led. I followed. … More
One fine day the Army will have you itching yer anus
Oh, sure, be as Ivy-League as you wannabe, Mr Rhodes Scholar but one fine day the Army will have you … More
You Hazari, you Herati, atonement awaits
You Hazari, you, Herati, you Kabuli, you Kandahari Open your city gates Acknowledge your sun-dried debt Atonement awaits: Glory to … More
Alibaba’s 3 asses
Come! My presidents Go! You kings Bring! Your platoon forty of thieves Free! Get! Put! Strap! Your riches Well! Upon … More
Yield thee a mantis of bother
We are hornets bred w scorpion genesHornet father, scorpion motherGuard your daughtersYield thee a mantis of bother
Drive out past the light-line at FTICA
say you drive out past the light-line take an orange out of a chest of ice and place it in … More
As you would any sparrow
Father You should kill me as you would any sparrow Bury me in your garden Daughter