Blue Trombones

 Blue Trombones

 

by John Kaniecki

 

Blue trombones

Set

      The

             Beat

Genocide to gentrification

Haunting taunting names

Manalapan

Pequannock

Bert's Sushi Restaurant

Five star delight

On Malcolm X Boulevard

Apollo was a hoax

And God

Well

I gaze upon His sorrowful face

As the pristinely uniformed corporal

Plays taps

As a marching band so grand

Carefully, cautiously side steps

The unconscious husk

Of the deluded mercenary

Long forgotten

Touted once as a local hero

Picture in the local paper

Who paid the ultimate sacrifice

As poverty licks

Like Jack Frost's dog

Bitterly count the cost

One,

        Two,

                 Three

As mournful widows dressed in black

Salute flags of agony

Wailing in bitter moans

Competing

With blind philosophers

Smoking bones

Rat-tat tapping to the tones

Sad sympathetic synchronized notes

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