Eighteen (Part 2)
Life in green

The runaway son
could not run away
from the ineluctable green
ending up unglamarously glabrous
when eighteen came rolling on tanks;
on a blitzkrieg bang bang boom boom
but the doctors/psychologists
physicians/medical officers told him-
he could not go into the frontlines
to get slammed into by an aircraft
to die gloriously for
the dynasty we live in-
because he is a pink ranger
and we all know pink to
go with green and smoke
and face paint
is so last season.
(Well, they are no fashion gurus)

So the father's prayer
went unanswered
and the runaway son
is still run away
snoozing on a desk job
nine to five
laying waste to life.

Then again
the runaway son
is still (also) the pink ranger
and has a world to save
and pixie dust to scatter.


cuRRent...jer  ¶ 2:03 pm