Wednesday, January 09, 2008
Korean Motto
Sergeant drove fast through thickest fog. We didn’t care. Could’ve been a suicide pact, unconscious.
Finally a major overtakes us, hauls us out of the jeep, screaming at our craziness.
SERGEANT (after he left)
Gung fuckin Ho! He gets off on stupid war and loves it with all his idiot heart.
Almost wish the sergeant killed both of us. So...we’re alive.
It’s all the same.
By chance we had been stopped at The University of Korea, what was left of it.
Ghost ruins. An arch with lettering on top. Young Korean officer squints
up through mists.
SERGEANT
Ask that gook what it says.
I do. “Learning Is Eternal.”
SERGEANT
Not like a bomb up the ass it ain’t.
Sergeant drove fast through thickest fog. We didn’t care. Could’ve been a suicide pact, unconscious.
Finally a major overtakes us, hauls us out of the jeep, screaming at our craziness.
SERGEANT (after he left)
Gung fuckin Ho! He gets off on stupid war and loves it with all his idiot heart.
Almost wish the sergeant killed both of us. So...we’re alive.
It’s all the same.
By chance we had been stopped at The University of Korea, what was left of it.
Ghost ruins. An arch with lettering on top. Young Korean officer squints
up through mists.
SERGEANT
Ask that gook what it says.
I do. “Learning Is Eternal.”
SERGEANT
Not like a bomb up the ass it ain’t.
