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.
