“Post-War”
Playing Scrabble on the kitchen table under the hand-sewn
drapes adorned with fruits, framed in yellow.
On the red tablecloth older than Grandma’s eldest sister, so as not to scratch the already scuffed wood.
Challenge after challenge from The Lawyer, with the nose of an Italian, sipping, slurping Pepsi.
The Lawyer, a retired Marine, endured the war in Vietnam, and Korea. All that cooking must have been Traumatizing.
With Christmas creeping, and my brother with a Gun-Ho aim to enlist his passionate existence to our Proud U.S. of A.
I inquired for contribution of mementos or materials to share. “You’re brother wants to be a Marine”
“Yes, he’s been wanting to follow in my Grandfather’s footsteps for years”
“You better talk him out of it unless you want him to die”
My Grandmother has been married to The Lawyer, uncouth and monotone
Rubbing her calloused, since before I was born. My father and his brother did not attend their union of settle, not love. He will never have the privilege to be my Grandfather.
Both on paper are classified as Marines, only one deserves
Recognition.
On the red tablecloth older than Grandma’s eldest sister, so as not to scratch the already scuffed wood.
Challenge after challenge from The Lawyer, with the nose of an Italian, sipping, slurping Pepsi.
The Lawyer, a retired Marine, endured the war in Vietnam, and Korea. All that cooking must have been Traumatizing.
With Christmas creeping, and my brother with a Gun-Ho aim to enlist his passionate existence to our Proud U.S. of A.
I inquired for contribution of mementos or materials to share. “You’re brother wants to be a Marine”
“Yes, he’s been wanting to follow in my Grandfather’s footsteps for years”
“You better talk him out of it unless you want him to die”
My Grandmother has been married to The Lawyer, uncouth and monotone
Rubbing her calloused, since before I was born. My father and his brother did not attend their union of settle, not love. He will never have the privilege to be my Grandfather.
Both on paper are classified as Marines, only one deserves
Recognition.
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