he really reallyreally liked Xplosions
not like BOOM BOOM in The
Death and Life of Bobby Z
but Xplosions
he wrote it Xplosions now after he and two buddies
survived that one as kids they made bombs together and that big one was the last he participated
inhe couldnt vouch for them he did it as a lark they were somehow invested and at the time they needed a third to help procure ingredients
IT WAS SUMMER
so besides the public pool that consumed a good amount of his time he learned how to hold his breath for nearly
two minutes watching girls lose their swimtops
jumping off either of the two one-meter boards or between them the three-meterGUARANTEED TOPS TO THEIR CHINS
so he had vagrant timeslots in his day to fill
the bomb blew his shoes offtattered
his pant legstossed him heels over head over heels over head some twentytwentyfive
feet from a depression in the ground where a sledding hill for winter was
being “built” at the Public Park
they werent
idiots
they werent trying to kill anyone
speaking
for himself
he was curious
and to be a part of the KA-BOOM
was terribly exciting
it was exciting to do something
wrong that he knew coudntwoudnt
speak for them was wrong
took them nearly the entire summer
vacation to acquire the ingredients
they made the local newspaper POLICE
LOOK FOR BOMB SUSPECTfront page not the crappy
Neighborhood News at the back with Want Ads The Classifieds the Horoscope
it occurred to him they were years ahead of IEDs improvised
explosive devise
he wondered if the other guys
thought so they were dead now anyway he bitched enough for the three of them
that theythey were the Fathers of IEDsSTOP
Stop No
British coined it during the Northern Ireland conflict when it became common American parlanceDUH
it was an
asymmetrical war
the United States should haveprobably did
expect that when they forewent the Worlds hand to help them bring terrorists to
justice combine their Intel
War and Justice are not the same
thing
we did nothing more than pour gas
on the fire
he truly anticipated their standard
elementary school first written paper What
I Did During My Summer Vacation.
then he thought
his hands were tied
he couldnt remember what he wrote
as disappointed and deflated as he was
he was pretty sure it was awfully shitty
usually he was an enthusiastic storyteller
too
his reputation preceding him
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