Thanks For The Memories

Mike Essig
Other Voices
Published in
1 min readSep 24, 2017
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for Ken Burns

The choppers danced
a choreography of death,
like Bolshoi dragonflies,
soaring and swooping,
determined, deadly,
delicate and graceful.

Horror and beauty
bound together,
locked in a final,
fatal, pas de deux,
nimbly performing
that doomed ballet
of murdering madness.

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Mike Essig
Other Voices

Honorary Schizophrenic. Recent refugee. Displaced person. Old white male. Confidant of cassowaries.