Brother Number One Reflects

 

But in another life I would have made

movies, comedies, would have starred in them,

too — me, a little jungle tramp, Comrade

Sar, charming, every move a wordless gem,

every sigh a violin, every wink

a trombone . . . I know you would have loved me

that way. But the people needed me. Think

of those pigs who ran things before — and seethe

at the memory of their cars, their faits

accomplis, their command of the king’s ear,

their women. We had to eliminate

them. And those dog-people in the east, hear

them howling now. We put the truth above

all else — this is history, this is love.

 

 

© Michael Fleming

Brattleboro, Vermont

June 2010

 

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