Victor Enns
AFGHANISTAN CONFESSION 49
the chaplain pulls
all the lousy shifts
safe beside
the dead
the brass choir
in his head
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AFGHANISTAN CONFESSION 50
I have been to no funerals.
Too young to bury grandma
back in Canada and here
the dead are not
my job. Turn away;
hey, hey
that’s what
I say.
—from Rattle #35, Summer 2011
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