I Got a Melon
a young guy at work read
my war poems and told
me I had style
I must be doing something
wrong as there are
only two reactions
appropriate as far as
I am concerned
this:
I read your shit, man
and it pisses me off
so much I enlisted
to go to Iraq
with no body armor
just to shoot desert
dicks
or this:
I didn’t know we could
still say stuff like that
without getting thrown in
prison like some dissenting
grandmother
style?
style is for those
who can’t write
but still do write
and especially those who
write about death
and call it a
bitter melon
Randolph Nesbitt
Posted over on Poets Against The War
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