“Groundbreaking Military Invention Turns Men Into Beasts”

And so it began.
Big men.
Big as tanks.
The land trembled
as they packed their gear.
A million beasts awaiting orders.

Military inventions
are always cool looking.
Sometimes
they will purposely
arrange the parts to give
it
a certain look, a vibe.
Now that’s pretty cool.
Only trouble is
these knobs on my neck
hurt like hell.
I look like a monster.

Arranging
the words in my head
then rearranging them
over and over is not pretty cool.
I require the patience of a saint.
Saint Audrey will do.
Divine intervention today’s special.
I’m in luck.

It’s almost Halloween.
My least favorite of all the holidays
I do my best to ignore.
Some kids
scrawled our front door
with soap.
That’s not what
you’re supposed to do
on Halloween,
fucking assholes.
Their world is not my world.
So now I’m a beast,
waiting on orders
as I fiddle with the knobs
on my neck.
We leave tonight.
I will crush
those fuckling assholes
who soaped our door.

I rearranged the words again.

Hope you like them.