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Bookmobile Splatter

by David S. Pointer

Paddy wagon worldview overstocked with hand cannons, mace, federal streamer, starlight scopes, bayonets, sniper rifles, hardly room to coddle prisoners

Paddy wagon worldview floods out over geological times takes on screaming rats running diseased or forever wet over eternal ammunition and gunpowder euphoria

Paddy wagon worldview watches those rodents return to environments marking and counter-marking landscaped make-believe green in the foreground with clipped grass of the uncoiled hose

Paddy wagon worldview watched rat-bite-fever-fang chew on the undead sewer refugees

Paddy wagon worldview locking floor door on the plague-ship prostitutes feeding cheese slices to enflamed fellow world travelers

Paddy wagon converted to bookmobile after child soldier type excitement makes off with abandoned weapons worldwide

Trench warfare arrived as old world rats took to their respective pathways swimming through rancid conditions

Trench warfare departed as new world rats rotated around Harry S. Truman’s empty atomic era house in Independence, Missouri

Trench warfare rats still chew on dead civilians and soldiers in my dreamscape for what I consume you shall consume sayeth the Spanish influence through other creatures such as chickens and pigs

Bookmobile camels were still killed by drone strike, strafing fire, and rogue enemy snipers and the rat’s tiny little magnetoreception systems led them to the papery fibers for what we consume so shall they consume

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Military Experience and the Arts, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization whose primary mission is to work with veterans and their families to publish short stories, essays, poems, and artwork in our biannual publication, As You Were: The Military Review, periodic editions of Blue Nostalgia: The Journal of Post-Traumatic Growth and others. To the best of our ability, we pair each author or poet that submits work to us with a mentor to work one-on-one to polish their work or learn new skills and techniques.

Our staff is based all over the country and includes college professors, professional authors, veterans’ advocates, and clinicians. As such, most of our services are provided through email and online writing workshops.

All editing, consultations, and workshops are free of charge. Veterans and their families pay nothing for our services, and they never will.

Under our Publications tab, there are more than two dozen volumes of creative work crafted by veterans and their family members as well as a virtual art gallery. Our blog posts feature short pieces that cover a wide range of opinion editorials, literary reviews, and profiles on veteran artists and writers.

Please consider spending some time navigating our site and reading and seeing the fine work of veterans and their families from around the globe.

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