Sunday, June 21, 2020

fallen soldiers

I see the noose
around old Robert E. Lee's

neck
as they pull him and his bronze
horse

down off the pedestal.
his sword is still

in his hand,
his hat secured.

his uniform tattered with
graffiti.

his eyes still focused on
some distant

field, bloodied and strewn
with corpses.

it seems he's lost the war
again

and will ride no more.

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