Thursday, August 17, 2006
2020
I took the recommended posture,having gotten
used to it.
Search Leader: "We'll ask the same question
in the hope of a different answer."
I told him the previous tenant knew him,but
didn't know his name. He only referred to him
as The Colleague.
Search Leader: "Despite both of you,we'll get him."
The apartment,the usual collection of approved cubes with patriotic posters,shook from a gunshot.
The Leader and his sergeant ran out. I kept my pose
in case it was a trick.
It proved to have been Grandpa,who jerked and was shot by a rookie.
Is he dead? I asked when they laughingly informed me.
"Nah. Just an extra hole. We'll take him along and patch him up. War Against Terrorism isn't heartless.”
“Not today,” came the Sergeant’s response.
“Give him a receipt."
I took the recommended posture,having gotten
used to it.
Search Leader: "We'll ask the same question
in the hope of a different answer."
I told him the previous tenant knew him,but
didn't know his name. He only referred to him
as The Colleague.
Search Leader: "Despite both of you,we'll get him."
The apartment,the usual collection of approved cubes with patriotic posters,shook from a gunshot.
The Leader and his sergeant ran out. I kept my pose
in case it was a trick.
It proved to have been Grandpa,who jerked and was shot by a rookie.
Is he dead? I asked when they laughingly informed me.
"Nah. Just an extra hole. We'll take him along and patch him up. War Against Terrorism isn't heartless.”
“Not today,” came the Sergeant’s response.
“Give him a receipt."
