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by Gordon Kippola

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(“Random Manufacturing Defects” mobile version)

No musicians killed since Vietnam?
Now it’s a cylinder spin
lasting the next twelve months for us.

Dion & Jimmie K., Jarrett, and Russ,
early on,
are leaving the giant mess hall tent.
Mortar shells
shot from town bracket
their route home,
duds
half-buried in asphalt.

Three-hundred-sixty-something days until
we’re good.

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Following a career as a U.S. Army musician, Gordon Kippola earned an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Tampa, and calls Bremerton, Washington home. His poetry has appeared, or is forthcoming, in Rattle, Post Road Magazine, District Lit, The Road Not Taken, The Main Street Rag, Southeast Missouri State University Press, and other splendid publications.

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