Howitzer

By German Dario

how his Mother heard the news
when it fell on her doorstep
 
how her breast must have hurt
 
how she died soon after him
 
how the sun came up exploding
a horizon with him gone 
and
how the moon every night after
 
and how his body touched the pavement
one
last
time
 
how we never heard him laugh again
 
how 
sober he abused 
the space between us
 
how he was was a child 
always 
 
how i gave him aguardiente
when he was little
 
how the root of his addiction
wakes me up at night
 
how the last shot to his head was
 
    not
 
 
    necessary