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Silent Shield
Overhead in a plane I silently kept the door-kicker safe.
Let these rough men willing to visit harm on evil-doers do their thing.
That’s not me. I’ve got mine. Specialization of labor and all that. And I was specialized. Honed to perfection.
Not a single American died while I worked overhead.
I never mentioned that out loud.
Must avoid the jinx. Always.
Keep the gremlins out of the engines.
Keep the plane in the sky.
Knock on wood. Americans alive. But I was done killing and helping to kill.
I’m not a door kicker. Never saw their faces.
That’s not the dream I have. But I was done killing and helping to kill.
A just war doesn’t make killing easy.
And ours was hardly just. Now I’m sure some doors go un-kicked,
And I’m guilty of killing yet still.