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