TheBanyanTree: [Bulk] SEVEN

[Jena Norton]

Very poignant and captures the soldier so well. I would think some military-related publication would publish this.

Jena Norton


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This was a  poem I wrote after visiting a friend in a VA hospital.  I saw a lot of tragedy while I was there and this was inspired by a real soldier whom I didn’t know, but just observed:

SEVEN  

He sat in his wheelchair
wondering
what next,
one leg short of a sandwich;
one sandwich short of a picnic
one bitter thought after another.