JOB
DESCRIPTION:
DONUT
DOLLIE
i
flew to desolate fire bases
filled
with the tools of war
and
the men who used them
it
was my job to perform the miracle
of
making the war disappear
(however briefly)
for
boys who had been trained to kill
it
was my mission to raise the morale
of
children who had grown old too soon
watching friends die
it
was my calling
to
take away fear and replace it with hope
to
return sanity to a world gone insane
i
was the mistress of illusion
as
i pulled smiles from the dust and heat
the
magical genie of "back-in-the-world"
as
i created laughter in the mud
but
when the show was over
i
crawled back into my bottle
and
pulled the cork in tightly behind me
emily
strange
©1992
