Wednesday, April 4, 2007

33/365 larry

he wore a father's face, watched cartoons on saturdays, played practical jokes that gave me nightmares. with bottle after bottle, he attempted to numb technicolor memories of marine friends being killed as they stepped into the bay at phu thu.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

There is no question that wars change people. While they didnt have a choice about going to war.....they do have a choice to help themselves or NOT once they come back........He chose NOT to and instead harmed countless other people. The pain and destruction he caused will far outlast his lifetime.

I wish he would have chosen to help himself before he chose to leave his children holding his bag of nightmares.

dawna said...

i'm trying (albeit not always successfully! :^)to choose to build cathedrals out of out of the materials at hand, including destruction and pain and bags of nightmares. for me, that's how it makes sense to make sense of it all. i can't wish it any different, because then i wouldn't be me, or you-- you. and i wouldn't trade us for anything! xo- d