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Mike Essig
Poems
Jun 2015
Becoming A Soldier: How It Works
The first pile
you see is
a burned, ******
stinking, heap
of humans, bloated
and swollen,
swarming with flies,
squirming with maggots
and you puke
like you have
never ever
puked before.
After that,
it's just
another pile
of dead *****.
Don't mean
******* nothing.
~mce
#war
Written by
Mike Essig
Mechanicsburg, PA
(Mechanicsburg, PA)
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