Saigon

by Anthony Grey

sinister

affable

skeptical

unobtrusively

immaculately

connived

deliriously

avuncular

inexorably

condescending

poignant

‘Even a blind cat sometimes trips over a dead rat.’”

inexplicably

Hadn’t sixty thousand people died in the British bombing of Dresden? Hadn’t thirty thousand died in the German blitz of London? Weren’t such figures proof that America had mastered the art of bombing cities while showing consideration for the people in them?

but as a man gets older his memories become more important if he has nothing else.”

echelons