Going Back to the Bullshit Shit-Ass War.

• Author: Solonche, Joel R.
• Position: Poem

He was a student wounded in Falluja in Iraq. He was absent a lot, and he never spoke in class. He came by to tell me he was going back. I asked him, "What the hell you doing that for, Mike?" He said he knew. He knew it was a bullshit shit-ass war, this student wounded in Falluja in Iraq. He smiled and stopped smiling. He said, "Fuck this war. Shit, the army pays tuition. Books. Gas." He just dropped by to say that he was going back. I stared at his T-shirt, which was entirely black with white letters, a rock band called Critical Mass . This was my student wounded in Falluja in Iraq. "I understand," I said. "But you may not have such luck next time." "Yeah," he said. "But this...