And Memorial Daze 2009
the days of wine and roses and
(the host his voice and chalice)
raises
are over and over
our thoughts are (in line) with the fallen
and speciously special s p e c t a t o r s
who dine without fear sans fraught
the feisty talkers who feast on fame
and the road and kill of lame fowl
fattened and drugged by fast chains
so the fete is no sure bet nor appetite-
whetting event: perchance the opposite
as brazen speakers writers declare
perhaps the contrary where
waiters could dare to suggest
maybe it's an anti-something
(that)
we as an awed hence wounded troop
have yet outside the loop to grasp
the group that eats and drinks and