11-24-2024, 11:20 AM
Powerball
They laid Margaret to rest
next to Arthur.
The bride he could claim
thanks to the atomic bomb.
In North Africa 1941
no joy for Yankee soldiers
Their green-leaf souls
sucked desert dry
(along with their tanks.)
Surviving that, he was
off to wet Italian hills.
Unquenchable socks
dissolved his toenails
into fertilizer for olive trees.
"Honshu: get ready to go
and never come home.
The red circumference of pride
will burn up all of our boys."
But instead:
Two mushroom suns
erased
a quarter million faces.
Arthur came home
and planted seeds
from debts that were
impossible to pay.
In the end, his mind
left his corpse vacated.
We gathered round and
paid our respects
tossing dirt like alms
into that deep well of charity
that was his grave.
He was finally reclaimed
by dust seventy years after
his number came up.
They laid Margaret to rest
next to Arthur.
The bride he could claim
thanks to the atomic bomb.
In North Africa 1941
no joy for Yankee soldiers
Their green-leaf souls
sucked desert dry
(along with their tanks.)
Surviving that, he was
off to wet Italian hills.
Unquenchable socks
dissolved his toenails
into fertilizer for olive trees.
"Honshu: get ready to go
and never come home.
The red circumference of pride
will burn up all of our boys."
But instead:
Two mushroom suns
erased
a quarter million faces.
Arthur came home
and planted seeds
from debts that were
impossible to pay.
In the end, his mind
left his corpse vacated.
We gathered round and
paid our respects
tossing dirt like alms
into that deep well of charity
that was his grave.
He was finally reclaimed
by dust seventy years after
his number came up.