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[He is Sick]

Jean Wickham

 

He is sick
"He's not getting better"
They tell me
Of course
How can he stop
Being himself
It's not like him
To heal

"I'm a sniper"
He tells me

More like MIA

He hasn't been the same
Since they threatened to drop the bomb
And didn't
He hasn't trusted the world since

His father should have just left
Instead of staying
There on the edge of a nervous breakdown
(The mother was accused of some covert operations)

More like a POW

He's not getting better
He's working on
Dying
By now that grave is a trench
He'll take them all down with him
After all this is a war
He'll keep digging