Sorted memories of Augsburg
abyss the tranquil lessons above
empty channels of you and I
why I've catered to the flicker
of light coming from the corridor
down the hall where the teakwood
table stood holding up the marble vase
that shattered everytime the door opened
my heart was flushed with a masculine
tale of dungeons and dragons at the behest
of feeling hope an yet you entered again
that quiet place that calmness against
all odds thee uncharted place beneath
the spoon of a Bishop's wife where
I'd bestowed a certain chastity wildly
explored throughout wisdom's sphere
in sheer doubt of waking to find
that you were still here
Mr and Mrs private first class stationed
in Augsburg 15th battalion
second Calvary division canteens and sea rashins
were being distributed while we had four more
court martials. lined outside of the jag office
after a deferred payment plan failed again
der banke of Munich we settled in the
chaplains office to speak with der Bishop
to discuss baq. barracks and housing quarters
allowance why living on a no payment status
allowance covered wodka Cognac and three
kartens of cigarettes food and clothing
not allowances while preparing the family
to relocate again to Berlin havoc broke out
chaos arose thee Iraqi embassy under attack
der wand was stille covered in graffitii I retrieved
three stones as my chanook arrived it read
apo. new York Kennedy our convoy flew over
Kremlin and the eastern shores
we gathered our canteens
while coughing up
tar from the hidden gravel
across high terrain
through the mist of Ankara
teal fabric blew in the.breeze
over burnt orange fragments
torn from my temporal
mangled mind of madness
shifting the gates
of emotional tiredness
we'd waited above ground
as the evening roared
past us again in solitude
miles from Augsburg
I catered to the infamous thunder
beside the housing quarters
beneath the wretchid callings
shattered beyond such graveness
that beckoned our soul's to port here
a silence abode within me
amid the character lessons
followed abroad the cold shoulders
hitler had morbidly left behind
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