CANNON AFB
Long
snout snake-like tongue ears of a donkey a camel's hump kangaroo
tail tubular teeth of a shark, claws of a bear probing mysterious
roots. "A little something for every zoologist." An
aardvark? painted on a wall.
Anteater
of the air, B-43 bombs; one M-61 gun, SCAMS in its belly, a
200-kiloton head, wings swept back outside its body, sorties
from Southeast Asia to the Libyan desert where new stars hunt
in the skin of the old.
What
is the meaning of a picture of yourself in the image of a pig
whose appetite turned an inquisitive child into a pail of slops?
Penned and tortured the swine was hung dressed as a man in formal
attire: clean white shirt, red tie pulled into a fatal knot,
sunglasses hiding intelligent eyes from the conscience of the
bloodthirsty crowd.
Flags
fly: one for a nation, one for a state, the unit, the award,
"cryptic swords of cloth" raised to a Thinker calmly
observing
what his mind conscientiously destroys.
