@stefan_bariscus 20 January 2022 more from that month

Pained *Mother likes to say* *She was braver at* *My age* *And I retort that the* *Grenades are better* *This days* *She says that the rocks* *Were her beds* *At nights* *I tell her that the rocks* *Are laden with bullets* *And shells* *She says I am a disgrace* *To her, running not at the* *Sight of war but at the sound* *And I reminded her that the sound* *Of war had made her lover absent* *At his daughter's naming ceremony.*