Friday, March 20, 2009

“He loved her” (pg. 96)
“Mary Anne Bell and Mark Fossie…
[They] had been sweethearts since grammar school” (pg. 94)
“He [brought] in a girl” (pg. 93)
“This is Mary Anne…she smiled” (pg. 94)

“He loved her” (pg. 96)
“D-cup guts and trainer bra brains… she’ll learn” (pg. 97)
“A good sharp mind…she’ll learn” (pg.97)
“[He] can’t find her. None of it seemed to be serving him well” (pg. 100)

“We got a problem” (pg. 101)
“She carried the standard…assault rifle” (pg. 102)
“[He] can’t find her” (pg. 100)
“What happened between them, nobody knew for sure” (pg. 103)
“Officially engaged (pg. 103), [but] [he] can’t find her” (pg. 100)

“Lost… grief took him by the throat” (pg. 106)
“He loved her” (pg. 96)
“A necklace of human tongues” (pg. 110)
“You’re in a place where you don’t belong” (pg. 111)
“You just don’t know” (pg. 111)
“She’s already gone” (pg. 112)
“He loved her” (pg. 96)

1 comment:

Dani O. said...

This poem was just exemplifying how war changes people in different ways. Some want things to stay the same, but it just can't happen that way as Fossie finds out in this story. This shows how different people react to the war and how they react to what the war brings them.