Devices

Can openers

P-thirty-Eights

and otherwise,

radios

left to,

bastard files

left to me,

 

an adz and a broken

straight razor

of undetermined

destination.

 

Green ammo boxes

with eighty years

of non-weaponry,

six broken watches,

a small reel to reel,

 

the kodak,

with the bellows,

grandpas GI photo,

or an uncle.

He wasn’t in the war,

any of them.

 

Eighteen-eighty-six

I guess he missed the big one.

Nineteen-two, the other

grandpa missed, too.

We all missed the wars, my dad,

my brother, me

not one damn bit, either,

left to.