—IT’S NOBODY’S FAULT, BUT DAMN YOU CAN MAKE A GUY CRY

 

 

We Used to Vacation

 

My brother 

back from the war 

wants to show me 

how easy it is 

to kill a man 

or animals 

who deserve worse 

and in the video 

the village on fire 

crackles and smolders 

so smoky black 

that I swallow 

a glob of char 

all 160 pounds 

of me shivering 

even though it’s 

102 poolside 

and the children 

on screen scream 

and never stop 

screaming