The Devil’s n’ the Details

by Bryan “Gannicus” Myers

“It works, right?”

“take it twice a day”,

Until methods turn malevolent.

The warring celestial plights

Escalate our malignant ways.

Now chomping on our irrelevance.

Mental polarity runs amok,

And morality starts to wave.

I left them piles of link,

Links led them to brand new brass

They still Gathered spent rounds as

Our foot patrol made another pass

We all return at deployments close,

But we don’t all make it home.

This first appeared in The Havok Journal on March 13, 2019.

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Bryan “Gannicus” Myers served over 11 years on active duty. Most of his career was in the 82nd as an 11B, 1BCT 2/504 PIR (White Devils).