| Rounding the corner, I tripped on my shoe lace. As I | | | | how long you been State side, you know in country?"" |
| bent down on one knee I looked straight out as my | | | | Only three months out of County Roscommon before |
| hands grabbed my laces and began their dance. A | | | | my departure back across the sea. You believe after |
| blinding flash, as the sun made a quick turn off a | | | | fighting those damn Gufies and puddens, I had to share |
| marble surface in the distance. Which happened to | | | | trenches in the desert with them. From throwing |
| make my hands slip upon something they knew as | | | | grenades at them from ditches on the side of the road |
| well as my lungs know to breathe. I looked down to | | | | to sharing a canteen. Tis a strange world Jesus, Mary, |
| concentrate on what I was doing and finished the knot, | | | | and Joseph."I was a bit lost to what a guffie or pudden |
| double tied.Damn size fourteen shoe laces. After size | | | | was but I nodded any way since he seemed quite |
| 12, they make one size only that you can hang a full | | | | agitated."By the way, the name is O'Niel, Seamus |
| size man with. Sometimes I think they are artifacts of | | | | O.Niel. I hate going around anonymous with those who |
| the appropriate length to hang myself after a full night | | | | comes to these parts and commune with me. But |
| on a bender of Martinis and M+M's. Granted a strange, | | | | being a dime a dozen, you know Joe smith like. But |
| mixture, but indeed this morning was one of those | | | | being Jon Doe is something I never could stomach." he |
| days I was second guessing it. I first encountered the | | | | finished with a slug from a silver halmarked flask.Well |
| pair on a train returning from Montreal. An older man | | | | hair of the dog and all, I took my obligatory swig from |
| had got me a Martini, being only twelve at the time I | | | | him and felt like I should use that empty grave for the |
| asked for a bag of M+M's to go along. Over the airs | | | | Vietnam unknown. Damn DNA testing gave that one a |
| of a Piano player, in those days was quite common, | | | | name and moved him out. Air Force 1st Lt. Michael |
| doing his best renditions of Billy Joel and other Magic | | | | Joseph Blassie. That war still being a disgrace to most, |
| 101 numbers. Unfortunately the man imparted some ill | | | | they never thought of placing maybe one of those |
| timed information about the where abouts of the ladies | | | | M.I.A. in it they keep occasionally digging up in some |
| of the evening who paint the old town scarlet. Been | | | | farmer's rice patty.They never dared give us gulf vets |
| back since on my various travels, but have not looked | | | | one, the ghosts of this monument would reject him for |
| up his veracity as of yet. Which brings me to this | | | | not being killed by an enemy. But then again it is all |
| morning.Being a reporter for The Times, keeps me out | | | | friendly fire starting from birth in impoverished towns. |
| of my own bed allot. I tend to feel bad kicking all those | | | | Failing schools always breed a great feeding pool for |
| cockroaches out of their's, but I figure I am at least a | | | | those starched uniforms circling in . Ignorance and |
| paying client. So the M + M+M's mixture is a habit of | | | | desperation is always the way to sow the fields to |
| travelocity. I checked into it with Blue Shield and Blue | | | | feed the cannons. From the earth, back to the earth."It |
| Cross, but there is no coverage for it. So this brings us | | | | was a shame about that one, I was just getting to |
| back to the shoe lace I am tripping on for the second | | | | know that shagger before they took him away."I |
| time. I am just not up to snuff this morning as my trick | | | | thought it strange he had such animosity for the Brits |
| knee does its act. So I pop one of my Percs and head | | | | being from a southern county. Maybe hatred could still |
| mindlessly to that glare.As I walked past those | | | | linger in Atrium, but gernading some modern Black and |
| countless interments of scores of boys who never | | | | tans in the south? It was not sitting straight. Then that |
| had a chance coming from the backwoods of some | | | | uniform, heavy brown wool. In the summer. Yes he |
| forgotten town with those hilarious signs, population 5. | | | | had it open bearing his dirty T with a hole in the belly. |
| The mill always closes appropriately right before a | | | | As I looked again, I saw the jacket line up just right to |
| war.As I rounded up the grass toward the bright white | | | | see a hole line up with that one. Then the fag, Pall malls |
| marble, those three ladies; victory, Peace, and Valor | | | | not Marlboro or GNC. The trench lighter"Yes, even |
| winked at me. Victory flashed her leg, Valor stuck her | | | | more dangerous than three on a match. Damn blow |
| breasts out, and Peace seemed to be brushed aside | | | | torch will give you away each time.""What...""Yes, |
| by Victory as she did her best Claudette Colbear. I | | | | Jesus Mary and Joseph you are one of the slowest. I |
| read the four marble slabs that rested flat into the | | | | am to be unknown no more. I told you I am to be no |
| plaza before those ladies. From east to west was | | | | Jon Doe. Cursed alive it was bad enough to be |
| The Unknown of WWI, WWII, Korea, and Vietnam. As | | | | Seamus O'Neil, bloody bullocks on those arhses if they |
| I got half way through the inscription of the slab on the | | | | think three months in country before shipped out I was |
| Unknown from Vietnam, I was disturbed by some | | | | going to be Jon doed and all."So I turned quickly around |
| punk humming some insidious tune with lewd overtures. | | | | expecting the other two to be standing behind me."Nah |
| I looked up and saw what was very popular in the | | | | by this time of day they buggering the senators of the |
| Urban outfitters. He was wearing something purchased | | | | wartime appropriations board, plastic trucks to stop |
| fom the local Army Navy store. But something was | | | | bullets, by noon they should be Harassing that Defense |
| off about him, but I could not place it. Just the average | | | | security. A real good Dickens they do on them, real |
| military uniform worn without the spit and shine. My | | | | top draw act.""Silainte!' he took one last slug before he |
| time in the Gulf got me five in the jaw for wearing my | | | | disappeared."By the way I would quit sucking on those |
| zoot that way."Do you mind! Lets have a moment of | | | | fags, they will kill you every time."My cigarette dropped |
| silence.""For the departed unknowns?"No for my | | | | from my lip with a full inch of an ash landing on my |
| splitting head, I responded as he only laughed."So what | | | | London fog. I know who am I to talk, summer time and |
| are you doing here with the stiffs?" the kid said over | | | | all. But my blood never seems to warm up from the |
| his nose."Oh I just figure if I show up in enough | | | | M+M+M's until I get a prairie Oyster into me.Christopher |
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| killed in the past. I found this witch doctor in Harlem, oh | | | | Services providing Individual Counseling, Group |
| never mind, it is just a quest in vain." The kid | | | | facilitation, and key note addresses that speak to the |
| approached me and offered me a fag, as he shook a | | | | heart of the mission while delivering the bottom line |
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| down his light for my own.Besides the Trench lighter, | | | | your quality of life aftre the first meeting!Also is the |
| the fag comment brought to light the confusion I was | | | | propietor and designer at Norgeforge Illumination |
| facing all morning. I had reported many Gay pride | | | | Studios that will SEO illuminated design giving |
| parades in New York, even ask Bloomberg if he would | | | | Aesthetics to traffic driven sales. So get out of the |
| be gay for the day as he earlier proclaimed he was | | | | cold and get Norgeforged! |
| going to be Irish or Italian for the day. No comment."So | | | | |