life
life is an amazing
air b n b house
overlooking the ocean
huge kitchen
jacuzzi
pool
dining room living room
a game room
full bar
the owner knows your name
shows you the place
hands you the keys
now you touch anything in here
he says
or sit on any of the furniture
i will kill you myself
seize the high ground!
you seize the high ground
as they taught you
epaulettes flashing like bonaparte
in the moonlight
get entrenched
bayonets fixed and greased
facing outward
pass me that canteen
chuck of brass into the throat of a gun
and you are still there
a monument to that moment
sometimes my mind is small
sometimes my mind is small
I experience shrinkage
and am never the same
as that night in seventy-four
when you wore those boots
but hers were bigger
she leaned over
spat on them after
snorting up
a bit
and we had to fight off a bunch of clowns
to keep our spot
in the porta potty line
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Colin Gee is founder and editor of The Gorko Gazette, a daily that publishes fake news, cartoons, reviews, and poetry. Fiction in Misery Tourism, Expat Press, A Thin Slice of Anxiety, Bear Creek Gazette, Exacting Clam, and elsewhere.