Shit talker
how is a foul mouth to be remedied
fit for every war and after-
dinner blow-up
out with his absent truth
and his white fish-belly
big as a blemish on the night
Poèmes sur le thème : war
Poèmes sur le thème « war » sur Poets.by.
Casualty
the war was hard to fit
into a silk coat
how many possess a cry
and never a body
and find it burdensome
to continue to see
Battlefield
do not hug too hard in a tent
keep warm at night
we go to war
to lie with butchers
the green or blue
sound of the field
some deep wound
calling you down
For god and country
joy giving other instructions
gives me the building of a ship
I soon understand how the war
had a lying use
Congressman
measure me for a black suit
full of yesterday’s pleasure
I shall do business with loss and war
till my eyes begin to fail
and I begin to take a rat
home to supper
Industrial revolution
war comes from the east
black like the bird who takes sad children
the city conquered play
I have not lived but to fight
Hat wearer
a hat I had for every matter
a hat for show
a hat for wind
a hat for peace
a hat for war
a hat for doing hurt
and a hat for this rain
keeping me company till night
Fricassee
here comes war an old order
resolving questions
about faction and protest
against the body
a war will not be true
a fricassee of notions and information
I eat every day
to ease my mind
Bombing for peace
I smell ugly money
on the other side of murder
they promising security
secure a cave made by hand
like wind in a paper country
this business of war
Outcome
up the morning stairs
to war with my wife
the tang of peace
PTSD
I work to carry several heavy things
a lie the war
that violent red map in my gut
enough to have killed me
my wife in bed shifting
doubtful of my hurt
Ballad of a bastard
poor child of God
knows what war
poor beast flinging off friends
and everything that is good
poor wind
and poor sordid water
poor wife forced
to go to court