We once again interrupt our short short stories to bring you thoughts from the war in Ukraine.
SPRING
BREAK
or
This is the Way Artists See the World
An Absurd and Utterly Divine Tragedy in Three Brief Acts
1.
PURGATORY
Driving south down the
Delmarva Peninsula on
Spring
Break
News on the
Radio out of
Mariupol
Ghastly
Barbaric
Women and
Children
Beaten
Bloodied
Raped
Tortured and
Murdered by
Putin’s
Butchers not a
War not
Armies
Battling for position and
Property and
Prestige just
Butchery
Savagery a deviant
Leader’s
Insanity and a once great
Nation’s
Inhumanity
2.
PARADISO
Lying in the soft
Carolina
Grass
Ocean
Waves breaking beyond the
Kitty Hawk
Dunes overhead the branches of an
Atlantic white
Cedar heavy with pine
Cones the
Sun filtering through the thin
Needles a bright
Yellow
Butterfly flutters past carrying on its fragile
Wings peace and
Quiet while the
Kids grow older and hopefully more
Grateful more
Aware of the small
Harmonies and displays of
Affection so vital to
Familial good
Health aware I am that it was
Love after all that delivered us into this
World not
Hate not
Savagery not
Treachery but
Love all this I
Meditate on just before I first
Hear and then
See
Blasting across the
Clear
Blue
Sky a formation of
F-15
Screaming
Eagles out of
Langley ready to
Kill
3.
INFERNO
Driving north now heading
Home
Lunch at a
Norfolk
Diner all of us a tad
Droopy after so much
Sun and
Fun and good
Food I first see and then
Hear two
Flyboys in their
Air
Force
Blues one says to the
Other
Old Joey
B gives the
Green
Light
Pal lets me
Loose I’ll
Bomb those f***ing
Russian
Commies and their little
Fat
Boy
Putin back to the f***ing
Stone
Age
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