Saturday, July 18, 2015

Fourth of July

You had the look 
of a wounded animal 
red, white, and blue 
blood, bone, and bruise  
we hadn't spoken 
since the stars & stripes 
the beginning of time 
since I made you and raised you 
and gave you a name 
twinless & sinless 
gunpowder grey 
no one can see this 
nobodies business 
the bunkers you're in 
shrapnel is buried 
under the skin 
green gold desire 
mortars light up 
flowers of fire 
under the sky
we chose to be smaller 
you'd rather have pain 
your smile, insane
your plane touches down 
on American plain 

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