Solely to Release Anger by Bogdan Dragos

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lots of negative weather forecasts

lately but

the park was still full

He folded the newspaper and

looked to the next

bench where some old man was begging

his caretakers to take him

home

He cried that his hemorrhoids

were killing him

Far into the distance children

were screaming

the kind of screams that make it difficult

to tell whether they’re having

fun or being slaughtered

On the front page of the paper

there was some

article about a recent murder. Some

monster stabbed a kid to death

in a park much like

this one

and everybody was

in uproar

And he fished into his pocket for

a cigarette

and then for the lighter

and smiled at their concerns. It was the

smile of someone who got away

with murder and he stretched it because he’d

gotten away with murder

Many years ago

Far abroad

Into the enemy country

There was a kid much like the one described

in the news article

and the little shit tried to sneak

past their camp and make a delivery

to the enemy

Sure the enemy were just

using him

as they used others

but as luck would have it

he got caught

and the soldiers were mad at him

The kid probably apologized but no one

could understand his language

so they gutted him

solely for the purpose of releasing anger

and frustration

It didn’t work

And the memory was still spinning around

in their heads. At least in

those heads that survived

But only one of them

could smile at it

-BOGDAN DRAGOS

Bogdan Dragos supervises casinos for a gambling company, working twelve-hour shifts locked in a dark office full of TV monitors. There he mostly daydreams and writes poems and stories. He also manages a poetry blog Daydreaming as a profession.

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