I remember you

...................................................Greater then greatness

.......Larger then the Empire State Building

......................................Where your misguided-misrepresented brother

Was shot down

......................By tiny airplanes

That were much larger then your

.....................Tiny glass cage

...............................................Set somewhere in a zoo

........In a country called Germany

During a time called the nineteen seventies

.......When I first looked into your wonderful

.....................Wise eyes

......While you were licking up

...Your spent puke

..................For the umpteenth time

.............To entertain

The marveling spectators

.............Who ahhhhhhhhhhhed

......At your stage center

Acts of tongue and scrutinizing stare

.............Whose wonderful eyeballs

.....Circled the entire crowd

.............Of dazzled simpletons

....................And stopped

......For those long moments

..........To gaze at me

... Who wore a uniform

Of a supposedly great land

.......And I for the first time

Longed for rank of general

......And changed colors and flag

For those more truly in need

circa: 1992