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Billy
A scribble of a notion of something I might decide to work with...it's fictional...but draws from something that actually happened. I grew up in a day when many of my friends were going to Nam. We were all military kids...socialized in the culture, so while some were actually drafted, most volunteered. 3 of them never came back... Billy was a ...
Posted to Best of the Fray by catnapping on July 23, 2009
VFW
Sitting with friends at a long table clutteredwith bowls of oatmealand cold stacks of pancakes,he holds his coffee mugwith both hands.And recites the memoryof a cold ditch in Korea,of hot chinese metaland smoldering wool,and the certainty that he would burst into flames. © catnapping
Posted to Poems by catnapping on November 8, 2008