Personal Effects(Excerpt)

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Yes, there was EARLY WARNING.

You said you were especially scared of mortar rounds.

You said you were especially scared of mortar rounds.

In EXECUTION PLANNING, they weighed the losses,

the sustainability and budgeted for X number,

they budgeted for the phone call to your mother and weighed that

against the amount saved in rations and your taste for cigarettes

and the tea you poured your boys

and the tea you would’ve poured me approaching Hello

The change you collected in jars jumping a bit

as the family learns to slam the home’s various doors.

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