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Bad Poetry 1.3
October 31, 2013
You used to make me follow along
and read your stupid war stories,
words of O’Brien and Heller,
letters twisted around the metal shafts of guns
and sentences punctuated by the bullets of death and pain.
You asked me to write you a war story
and when I tried to explain that everyday is a war story-
the lady wearing glitter eyeshadow in the alley is an insurgent
and how I catch the quick glimpse of a smile when I look at you
it’s earth shattering enough to throw me off like a roadside bomb,
you cut me off and said, “that’s not a war story”.
© Jillian K., New City, NY
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