Can I change the three big lies?
A hot summer war,
Gross casualties by the hundreds,
Hair covered in soot,
his leg, shattered, scattered,
Caught by a boodie-trap.
He lay dying in a den in the hot jungles of South Vietnam.
And, in the dens, I lay with them.
Can I change the three big lies?
Who are the primary caregivers after the mother?
Never fading into the background,
The governmental teet we suckled.
No one can go back to being "normal."
The world never sees you the same.
Personal security is compromised
night after night in nightmarish dreams,
a constant reminder of what I've done wrong.
Next week, our daughter is moving,
I am almost ready to admit defeat.
Noisy in the den with men
Crying out for a chance to see their son
one more time
or their woman or their mothers and fathers.
Glib soldiers knock in vain.
We lay defeated by the lie we refused to acknowledge.
Burning Sage, he - a raging drunk
shacked up with another coward, Hin,
to set this plot in motion
I should have seen straight through the lies.
My men dying.
Let the sissies in the den eat hotdogs,
or anything else they can get their hands on.
Their last meal is this one.
Boiling it all down
The lies that lead us into war
Never was it just or kind.
Wars are neither just or alien
To the mind's of humans.
We believe the lies.
We want to believe.
We failed on a witch hunt.
But, they, the enemy -
A bat and a stick held by murders
I was the lesser for not seeing
What I refuse to let get across to me.
And, so, I suckled at the government teet,
A true tax payer to the end.
I lay dead in the den with my men.
It all started from white lies.
We suckle at the governmental teet.
I led my men down into the den.
A boobie-trap took all of our lives.
The lies.
In the grave.
Stones piled up.
Storm in the near distance.
Flags folded up.
Gunfire.
Blank shots.
Dogs bark.
The end.
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My Completed Freewriting prompts:
| Ongoing Stories | Numbered in Order of Story's Progression | ||||
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| Detective Story | #1 Trolley #2 Flea #3 Awakening | ||||
| Suspense/Horror | #1 Late #2 Banana #3 Paper #4 Tree #5 5 #6 Home Alone #7 Doctor’s Office | ||||
| The Stall | #1 Medium #2 The Stall #3 The Stall #4 Mice #5 Detective #6 Homeless #7 Eyebrows #8 40 Percent Off #9 One Year #10 The Stall | ||||
| Church | #1 Church #2 Ornate #3 Chips #4 State | ||||
| Butterfly | 1. Old Maid 2. Pitiful 3. Headache 4. coffee 5. Three Grapes 6. Helicopter 7.Helpless 8. Overslept 9. Smooth as Silk | ||||
| Dragon Breath | 1. Dragon Breath 2. Death on the Table 3. Washcloths | ||||
| The Attic | 1. The Attic 2. The Four Corners 3. Small Package | ||||
| Damaged Goods | 1. Well-being 2. Orange Blossom 3. Freedom of Personal Power | ||||
| 1. Rooster; 2. Groundhog Day | |||||
| Curie upvoted - Tick-Tock | Time | Global | room service | Inbox | Gotham City |
| Halcyon Days | Halcyone Days | Window | Rote | Perfect Nanny | |
| Day 1: Hippo |
| We-writes (collaborations with community members) | ||||
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| Monster | Eagle Scout 1st Entry: 2nd Entry: 3rd Entry | Smooth as Silk | Torment of the Light Bulb | |
| Pull the Plug | Death on the Table | The Farm House | Well-being | |
| Idiot 1; 2; 3 | The Foreman's Meltdown |
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