Darker Than the Deepest Sea

Darker than the deepest sea the TV was showing the news at eight it was about a war and a man ,not young but not old shooting his machine gun from a roof down, down, down… empty shells bounced around his feet like rain in a duck pond so listen…the next thing you knew the top of his head flew clean off and pirouetted out of shot (don’t know where) a present from another sniper shooting up, up, up? and a blood pool the shape of Africa ,Africa and darker than the deepest sea crept across the floor, containing his life, his wife, his family, his car and his thoughts then his friends stepped into the African sea and splashed his soul on to their chins and into their teeth and between their gasps and you know? it was darker than the deepest sea.