SHRAPNEL
A chunk of death spins beside me on dried mud, [...]
There was a first day he battled the angry heat, [...]
I am the bastard boy of the World Wars, born [...]
My M-50 gave me arms and legs, flanked my liver [...]
The ghost shivers in one corner of the room like [...]
Let’s hear it for Alphonso, going home at last, goddamn [...]
There was me, the Vietnamese and the rat. The [...]
Scrape a flounder on a new piece of lumber. Crack [...]
From my jeep in a convoy grinding through the base [...]