Lessons
do away with medals
and remembrence parades
those boys were brave
we know but look at where
it got them
reduced to line after perfect line
of white stones
immobile
glorious
exciting
to kids who havent yet learned
that bullets dont make little red holes
they
rip
smash
gouge
and drag the worlds dirt behind them
remember lads you wont get laid
no matter how good your war stories
if your dead so
melt down the medals
fuel the fire with
paper poppies
war books
And arnie films stop playin with the pipes
banging with drums
and stop writing
poems about it
Copyright © Jeffrey Shover | Year Posted 2010
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