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Friendly .9

Mike Brennan

Shrapnel lodged in the dome-
thoughts trying to surface like submarines
& the body launching another airstrike
off sleepless eyelids
because maybe the Doc didn’t prescribe the right meds?

It’s so much harder now
trying to become a crew-cut civilian
living a half-life of VA-can’t stares
awake all night doodling nautical nonsense
popping Klonopin & occasionally nodding
until another memory emerges

There is nothing left to compromise
but to suddenly rise &
raise my friendly .9
(a finger feels for her familiar clitoris)

Except then unexpectedly, there’s
a sudden touch of that trusty PTSD-
a threat of Tuesday &
a war on terror that has consequently
become a conflict
waging across the collective salts
of all the world’s seas

But it is all only just another ship
dropping down searchlights &
highlighting the drowning doppelganger
that spits surreal images &
unpublished sonnets
over what the sharks
have kindly decided
they would spare of me.

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