guns
I have been very busy lately, there isn't much time or energy to write much. I am trying to get some old stuff sitting in my PC online. Wondering why it's sitting there in the first place.
It's military related, and unpublished.
scan by dsnake1
guns
1962
i wanted to try
but i have no money
and the gun was probably
too heavy
so i just watched
as the stall lady
pulled the lever
of the air gun
handed the weapon
to a shooter
all the while
a lit cigarette
dangling in her mouth
that inch of ash
strangely not falling
and the shooter
was taking his time
undecided on his targets
beer bottles light bulbs
metal yellow ducks
up above a full moon
scattered its light
on the fairground
1972
i wanted to get this
over as soon as possible
it was too hot
the steel helmet too heavy
so i just watched
the target in front of me
a wooden board with a picture
of a soldier
and as we shooters lay prone
in the dust
eyes peering through gun sights
the detail sergeant
on the bullhorn growled
the order to fire
and as i pulled back
the charging handle
of the M16
heard the bolt clicked
i was thinking of
beer bottles light bulbs
metal yellow ducks
up above a blazing sun
fired its rays
on the rifle range
28/05/2012
**********
When I was a child living in the inner city, my parents or my uncle would take us kids to an amusement park near our home. In the early days before tv or the super malls, these parks were a popular spot of entertainment for the masses. Besides the usual ferris wheels, carousels, and bumper cars were the game stalls and joget dance halls. There were also the gun stalls where shooters with air rifles briefly imagined themselves as Buffalo Bills or snipers. There was always a small crowd watching. Perhaps the sound of splintering glass attracts or they just liked to see a sharpshooter in action.
Shared on Poetry Pantry #205 at Poets United.
© cheong lee san ( dsnake1 ) 2014
It's military related, and unpublished.
scan by dsnake1
guns
1962
i wanted to try
but i have no money
and the gun was probably
too heavy
so i just watched
as the stall lady
pulled the lever
of the air gun
handed the weapon
to a shooter
all the while
a lit cigarette
dangling in her mouth
that inch of ash
strangely not falling
and the shooter
was taking his time
undecided on his targets
beer bottles light bulbs
metal yellow ducks
up above a full moon
scattered its light
on the fairground
1972
i wanted to get this
over as soon as possible
it was too hot
the steel helmet too heavy
so i just watched
the target in front of me
a wooden board with a picture
of a soldier
and as we shooters lay prone
in the dust
eyes peering through gun sights
the detail sergeant
on the bullhorn growled
the order to fire
and as i pulled back
the charging handle
of the M16
heard the bolt clicked
i was thinking of
beer bottles light bulbs
metal yellow ducks
up above a blazing sun
fired its rays
on the rifle range
28/05/2012
**********
When I was a child living in the inner city, my parents or my uncle would take us kids to an amusement park near our home. In the early days before tv or the super malls, these parks were a popular spot of entertainment for the masses. Besides the usual ferris wheels, carousels, and bumper cars were the game stalls and joget dance halls. There were also the gun stalls where shooters with air rifles briefly imagined themselves as Buffalo Bills or snipers. There was always a small crowd watching. Perhaps the sound of splintering glass attracts or they just liked to see a sharpshooter in action.
Shared on Poetry Pantry #205 at Poets United.
© cheong lee san ( dsnake1 ) 2014
posted by dsnake1 at 10:33 PM
4 Comments:
My experience with those booths was always that the sights were bent (each one differently) so that no reliable shot could ever be made. Sharpshooters Beware . . .
Stormcat, always glad to see you around!
so that's how they cheat us?! :)
we have those boothes at the flea market...amazes me that automatic weapons are sold unrestricted out of trucks....to practice taking a life...oy
there should have been some control on guns. over here it's next to impossible to buy a gun. there are very strict laws on gun ownership, illegal possession and discharge of weapons.
thanks, Brian!
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