November 2015
Joyce S. Brown
jsbrown1939@gmail.com
jsbrown1939@gmail.com
I’m a retired English teacher (high school and college) with 53 years of marriage, two children, four grandchildren, one dog. I’ve had poems in Poetry, The American Scholar, The Tennessee Review, Yankee, and others!
Gulf War
The war begins right after
a TV commercial for Advil.
Reporters in Baghdad jut
their microphones out
the hotel window to catch
the pops of anti-aircraft rounds.
In the wings, a hooded
executioner rolls his drum
for CNN to show its logo
and yoyo round the world:
Baghdad, Washington, London,
Tel Aviv, Baghdad again.
"We'll be back with more right after this:"
Chevrolet Caprice, Dodge Dynasty,
Dentu-foam and Chloraseptic Spray.
Pentagon officials praise
the "surgical strike...successful
campaign...damage achieved."
By morning two planes are missing
and two pilots two pilots two pilots
The war begins right after
a TV commercial for Advil.
Reporters in Baghdad jut
their microphones out
the hotel window to catch
the pops of anti-aircraft rounds.
In the wings, a hooded
executioner rolls his drum
for CNN to show its logo
and yoyo round the world:
Baghdad, Washington, London,
Tel Aviv, Baghdad again.
"We'll be back with more right after this:"
Chevrolet Caprice, Dodge Dynasty,
Dentu-foam and Chloraseptic Spray.
Pentagon officials praise
the "surgical strike...successful
campaign...damage achieved."
By morning two planes are missing
and two pilots two pilots two pilots
©2015 Joyce. S. Brown