Man, The Tool Maker
The interrogation proceded with a sledgehammer
handle, wieldier without the heavy head and more
suitable for repeated application.
Why the soldier had a sledgehammer,
and whether he kept both hands on the handle
in accord with its design, is not noted.
About the inspiration behind another tool the report is more
forthcoming: the soldier's older brother had,
as a child, closed him up in a sleeping bag
and he had found it scary.
Whether the man inside the bag
had been informed he was about to be
questioned with a sledgehammer
handle, the report also does not make clear.
(See here and here and here and here.)
handle, wieldier without the heavy head and more
suitable for repeated application.
Why the soldier had a sledgehammer,
and whether he kept both hands on the handle
in accord with its design, is not noted.
About the inspiration behind another tool the report is more
forthcoming: the soldier's older brother had,
as a child, closed him up in a sleeping bag
and he had found it scary.
Whether the man inside the bag
had been informed he was about to be
questioned with a sledgehammer
handle, the report also does not make clear.
(See here and here and here and here.)
Labels: our long national nightmare, poetry
posted by rilkefan at 01:14
4 Comments:
Rilkefan, this is a really nice poem. I was meaning to mention yesterday when I first read it. I've been recommending it to people ever since.
(I am Jeremy Osner whose name you may know from Obsidian Wings.)
Oh yeah, hey. It came out of the linked OW thread, specifically this comment. I'm thinking about it more as a spontaneous outburst of emotion in short lines than as a poem for the moment, but then it's often hard to tell the difference. Anyway, thanks.
Well {x: x is a "spontaneous outburst of emotion in short lines"} is a subset of {x: x is a poem} -- so it seems fine to call this a poem. My 2cents anyways.
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