| Rounding the corner, I tripped on my shoe lace. | | | | comment."So how long you been State side, you |
| As I bent down on one knee I looked straight out | | | | know in country?"" Only three months out of |
| as my hands grabbed my laces and began their | | | | County Roscommon before my departure back |
| dance. A blinding flash, as the sun made a quick | | | | across the sea. You believe after fighting those |
| turn off a marble surface in the distance. Which | | | | damn Gufies and puddens, I had to share |
| happened to make my hands slip upon something | | | | trenches in the desert with them. From throwing |
| they knew as well as my lungs know to breathe. | | | | grenades at them from ditches on the side of the |
| I looked down to concentrate on what I was | | | | road to sharing a canteen. Tis a strange world |
| doing and finished the knot, double tied.Damn size | | | | Jesus, Mary, and Joseph."I was a bit lost to what |
| fourteen shoe laces. After size 12, they make | | | | a guffie or pudden was but I nodded any way |
| one size only that you can hang a full size man | | | | since he seemed quite agitated."By the way, the |
| with. Sometimes I think they are artifacts of the | | | | name is O'Niel, Seamus O.Niel. I hate going around |
| appropriate length to hang myself after a full night | | | | anonymous with those who comes to these |
| on a bender of Martinis and M+M's. Granted a | | | | parts and commune with me. But being a dime a |
| strange, mixture, but indeed this morning was one | | | | dozen, you know Joe smith like. But being Jon |
| of those days I was second guessing it. I first | | | | Doe is something I never could stomach." he |
| encountered the pair on a train returning from | | | | finished with a slug from a silver halmarked |
| Montreal. An older man had got me a Martini, | | | | flask.Well hair of the dog and all, I took my |
| being only twelve at the time I asked for a bag | | | | obligatory swig from him and felt like I should use |
| of M+M's to go along. Over the airs of a Piano | | | | that empty grave for the Vietnam unknown. |
| player, in those days was quite common, doing his | | | | Damn DNA testing gave that one a name and |
| best renditions of Billy Joel and other Magic 101 | | | | moved him out. Air Force 1st Lt. Michael Joseph |
| numbers. Unfortunately the man imparted some ill | | | | Blassie. That war still being a disgrace to most, |
| timed information about the where abouts of the | | | | they never thought of placing maybe one of |
| ladies of the evening who paint the old town | | | | those M.I.A. in it they keep occasionally digging up |
| scarlet. Been back since on my various travels, | | | | in some farmer's rice patty.They never dared |
| but have not looked up his veracity as of yet. | | | | give us gulf vets one, the ghosts of this |
| Which brings me to this morning.Being a reporter | | | | monument would reject him for not being killed |
| for The Times, keeps me out of my own bed | | | | by an enemy. But then again it is all friendly fire |
| allot. I tend to feel bad kicking all those | | | | starting from birth in impoverished towns. Failing |
| cockroaches out of their's, but I figure I am at | | | | schools always breed a great feeding pool for |
| least a paying client. So the M + M+M's mixture is | | | | those starched uniforms circling in . Ignorance and |
| a habit of travelocity. I checked into it with Blue | | | | desperation is always the way to sow the fields |
| Shield and Blue Cross, but there is no coverage | | | | to feed the cannons. From the earth, back to the |
| for it. So this brings us back to the shoe lace I | | | | earth."It was a shame about that one, I was just |
| am tripping on for the second time. I am just not | | | | getting to know that shagger before they took |
| up to snuff this morning as my trick knee does | | | | him away."I thought it strange he had such |
| its act. So I pop one of my Percs and head | | | | animosity for the Brits being from a southern |
| mindlessly to that glare.As I walked past those | | | | county. Maybe hatred could still linger in Atrium, |
| countless interments of scores of boys who | | | | but gernading some modern Black and tans in the |
| never had a chance coming from the backwoods | | | | south? It was not sitting straight. Then that |
| of some forgotten town with those hilarious signs, | | | | uniform, heavy brown wool. In the summer. Yes |
| population 5. The mill always closes appropriately | | | | he had it open bearing his dirty T with a hole in |
| right before a war.As I rounded up the grass | | | | the belly. As I looked again, I saw the jacket line |
| toward the bright white marble, those three | | | | up just right to see a hole line up with that one. |
| ladies; victory, Peace, and Valor winked at me. | | | | Then the fag, Pall malls not Marlboro or GNC. The |
| Victory flashed her leg, Valor stuck her breasts | | | | trench lighter"Yes, even more dangerous than |
| out, and Peace seemed to be brushed aside by | | | | three on a match. Damn blow torch will give you |
| Victory as she did her best Claudette Colbear. I | | | | away each time.""What...""Yes, Jesus Mary and |
| read the four marble slabs that rested flat into | | | | Joseph you are one of the slowest. I am to be |
| the plaza before those ladies. From east to west | | | | unknown no more. I told you I am to be no Jon |
| was The Unknown of WWI, WWII, Korea, and | | | | Doe. Cursed alive it was bad enough to be |
| Vietnam. As I got half way through the inscription | | | | Seamus O'Neil, bloody bullocks on those arhses if |
| of the slab on the Unknown from Vietnam, I was | | | | they think three months in country before |
| disturbed by some punk humming some insidious | | | | shipped out I was going to be Jon doed and all."So |
| tune with lewd overtures. I looked up and saw | | | | I turned quickly around expecting the other two |
| what was very popular in the Urban outfitters. He | | | | to be standing behind me."Nah by this time of day |
| was wearing something purchased fom the local | | | | they buggering the senators of the wartime |
| Army Navy store. But something was off about | | | | appropriations board, plastic trucks to stop bullets, |
| him, but I could not place it. Just the average | | | | by noon they should be Harassing that Defense |
| military uniform worn without the spit and shine. | | | | security. A real good Dickens they do on them, |
| My time in the Gulf got me five in the jaw for | | | | real top draw act.""Silainte!' he took one last slug |
| wearing my zoot that way."Do you mind! Lets | | | | before he disappeared."By the way I would quit |
| have a moment of silence.""For the departed | | | | sucking on those fags, they will kill you every |
| unknowns?"No for my splitting head, I responded | | | | time."My cigarette dropped from my lip with a full |
| as he only laughed."So what are you doing here | | | | inch of an ash landing on my London fog. I know |
| with the stiffs?" the kid said over his nose."Oh I | | | | who am I to talk, summer time and all. But my |
| just figure if I show up in enough cemeteries I | | | | blood never seems to warm up from the |
| might find all of those brain cells I have killed in the | | | | M+M+M's until I get a prairie Oyster into |
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