August 25, 2008

OLD SOLDIERS

Sitting blowing bubbles,
Each one a tiny world
Of monumental troubles
And how they all unfurled:

"The desert - Cairo - jaunty -
A blue room and a whore -
And so I said to Monty -
And so we won the war!"

Published online: Snakeskin, UK, August 2008

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