Monday, October 5, 2009

562. FORENSIC EVIDENCE

FORENSIC EVIDENCE
Magic dodo-bean airship palaver
keeping sentry on the high-topped air.
The handgun of the salient, shown to go
off, resounds with an echo unceasing.
Anybody hurt? Dead too? Put the
important ones in the important
cemetery, the rest throw into the
field. No one ever said a Civil War
was easy. We've run this river red
with rebel blood, and they've done
the same with us. Brother against
brother, blood against trust.
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At the Southgate Seminary, two men
studying the Book are praying as
they nod their heads. They know
very little, and have chosen God
instead. All before them, out on
the modern field, it is Decoration
Day - where not just that one,
but every War is remembered

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