CheerfulDave BontaHow the war endedThe war I mourn died yesterday of spotted fever. We sat late disputing at the burial.
AnxiousDave BontaWar correspondentWar is a dizziness, desire is business. My ink will be water till night.
SadDave BontaDispatch from the frontThis day is ash. The war continues, and the sea takes a body that was a person in the land. The shore sang, a messenger from tomorrow.
AngryDave BontaMercantilismThe war, the exchange and the hangman, constituting a commonwealth, make a profit on a cheap piece of star.
SadDave BontaOld soldierI miss the war. All the officers and friends of my past sang songs and then went away. And night came to wash me clean.
AngryDave BontaConscriptTo go to war is to muster and shut up, to exchange cheer for a cell. I stay drunk, a thing for finishing. (No hope is to go.)
SadDave BontaArmisticeTwenty-five ships, and we could not make an end of Monday. On land, we met with castles. Our rest was troubled. I mourn the death of my bed.
AnxiousDave BontaSic TransitAll alone, the table— a plain thing of perfect service— fell into neglect. Ignorant how things go, I fear war, not time.
CheerfulDave BontaPeacenikI commission the navy: get a dolphin drunk and marry her in place of war. Resolve again to see home and bed.
ContemplativeDave BontaSelf-ReflectionMe: my extreme business. I see my father, that wit, the war with chance. My lord Me, we turn.