Thursday, September 25, 2014
The Buffalo
War is numb
“Shot it through the right front knee”
It didn't scream
“Shot of an ear”
It didn’t attempt to flee
“Shot it in the hindquarters”
“Shot it twice in the flanks
no one pitied it
“Shot off the tail”
“Shot away chunks of meat below the ribs”
Shot randomly”
“Shot it in the left front knee”
“Rat had lost his best friend”
“For now the question of pain”
In war pain makes you numb.
“Rat Kiley was crying”
“Curt lemon stepped on a booby trap”
When a soldiers in pain
He doesn’t care to feel
He doesn’t want to feel
He doesn’t want to be a soldier
Jack Monaghan
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I like how you capture many of the emotions that soldiers have to deal with in war in the poem.
ReplyDeleteI thought this part of the story was horrible, but you did a good job of analyzing what Rat went through when his friend died and his motivation for this action.
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