empty the chamber

Click
Boom
Kill,
Rinse, Reload,
and Repeat.
reach for a cigarette-
draw in a drag
as the gun
goes
Bang.
exhale and refill
the chambers.

creep through shadows,
target in sight
but he’s
scoped me too.
moment
passes,
and he has
time
to pull
the trigger,
but hesitation catches
so
Boom.
I pull first.

He’s green.
Green boys shouldn’t
be allowed
on the field;
green doesn’t
do well
in battle.
It gets covered
in red,
from a gunshot
to the head,
and then
they aren’t so green
anymore.

Take one
last drag
and pop in
another,
light up
and start
again,
spin the roulette
and
Bang
Bang
Bang
three more down,
who knows
how many more
to go.

Grey is just as bad
as green.
so much easier
to see things
in black
and white,
good and bad,
ally and enemy.
who wants
to know
who was a
good dad,
and who just
got engaged.
Grey just clouds
and qualms,
and when you
can’t see,
you’re the next
to go.

but now’s not
the time
to ponder
the grey and green,

so focus

on the easy;
black,white, red.
fill up
the chamber
cold metal
an anchor,
and
Boom,
it starts again.