Wednesday, July 30, 2008
The Beginning of the No
the beginning of the "NO"
Knights without armor
scrounge rubble. Weld trash
for chamfrons, crinets, tasses, cuirasses;
are told it’s tough. That’s just
war, baby.
Grail Knights without a quest
on another false crusade
as all crusades were false;
in that old land, that cradle land.
Still, not enough
have learned what comes
when Valkyries choose
fake heroes who so much like Joshua
salt the earth, this time
with depleted uranium.
Some awaken to the bad deal
the recruiter sold like a bad Ford
that clunks, burns oil and shudders
down the Baghdad road.
How to go to college
or Valhalla in that
awful special tribute of the
tri-fold flag and pomp.
Formalized and useless
tragedies of broken families
mirror Ali. Ali who in the press
forever holds out burnt-off stumps
to me; measure of our success, reflected
in that other mirror of crushed walls,
poisoned wells and burnt over
wadis, in those deepest dark eyes.
Gene Grabiner
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