500 Flags

12:01 PM 12/18/2011 Sunday

500 Flags at Fort Bragg

The Coach waves his hand like
A yellow flag at the start of
The Indianapolis 500

His white knuckles under
Brown leather gloves grip
Stainless steel Humvee steering

Wheel defying friction with
Synthetically lubed script
Another tabloid fiction prints

His racing form unto the American
Consciousness loath to
Count the million

Dead Iraqis gone from
Future Texas history books as
He enunciates the small, stale words

Ramrod shoulders squared
"The oil derricks are proud of
Your bloodied sacrifices under
The frigid heavens of Fort Bragg..."

Proverbs 2:6

For the LORD giveth wisdom:
out of his mouth cometh
knowledge and understanding.