From Troy To Laos

StourbridgeRantBoy

“We men are wretched things.”

On a miserably
hot, humid day
cruising above
a silent jungle,
I watched as a
twenty-two year old
Cobra pilot cleared
his machine guns
on an ancient,
abandoned,
Buddhist temple.

All the hubris of
western civilization
explicated in one burst.

Homer, who best
knew the hearts
of men at war,
could not have
sung truer
than those bullets.