The Iowa Review

Six Kinds of Tough Shit

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The given has taken another warrior, another kid really, doofus fuck from 3rd platoon, whose only job was breathing

but isn’t now except in gasping gurgles from a neck wound then moaning too much morphine and strapped to a jungle penetrator dangles from that chopper

lift his ass out when the cable snaps drops him forty fuckin’ feet

through triple canopy treetops so now, snagged 20 feet above the ground, someone must climb for the body

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