Goats

Based on something I did and shouldn't have.

Goat skull splinters open
Brains fly like after burner mist
Tangled in razor blade wires
I was to close to miss
Tar shack outhouse mascarade
The Commandant's icey stare
What were we doing in this place
Did anyone even care

Author's Note

It happened in the shittyist place on earth, Afghanistan. This sick ass goat kept coming around our base and getting tangled in our wire (fence) so we had to go out, get it untangled and repair the damage. Finally the goat pissed me off so I shot it. The local elders got wind of the incident and made a big stink about it and I got into a shit load of trouble. For shooting the sorryest looking goat you'd ever care to see. It was a low point in my time in the corps

Reviews

[Pax]

it must be a very bad day for you at that time...
maybe the local elders was mad because i think i have heard here they have a proper way to kill an animal or its just that that goat is still useful to them like their milk... a very nice work here!

[Baby Ricochet]

The local elders saw an opportunity to get something for nothing from us and they did. We gave them aid as payment. Food, blankets, that sort of thing. They wanted money but our CO wasn't an idiot so that didn't work on him. It came down to the "hearts and minds." Thank you for the review mr Pax

[Lina Grey]

I like cartoon goats. those are cute. I guess real ones are total pains... nice poem, great imagery and rhyming. i guess sometimes the right thing to do is not the proper thing to do, eh? the Middle East can be quite a bit picky on things... (not that I know too much on Afghanistan though)

[Baby Ricochet]

Afghanistan is in central Asia. It's North of Pakistan which is north of India. Iraq is in the middle east. Iraq and Afghanistan are to totally different worlds and cultures. About the only commonality was Islam which isn't as big a brotherly bond as the US press makes it out to be. It's OK Lina, People make that mistake all the time
Thank you for the review.

[Lina Grey]

really? I feel like my teacher lied to me...my teacher in a Global Studies Academy where they should know this sort of thing XP thank you though, and you're welcome for the review :)

[Epipsychologist]

I've never been to afghanistan, but it sounds horrible. Goat cheese is okay though. You should have milked it first, unless it had already curdled in it's breasts on account of being sick.

[Baby Ricochet]

It was rather spur of the moment the f*****g thing s**t on me while we were trying to get it untangled

[KAOlmsted]

Well done. I was hoping it would turn into a poem ;-)

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you

[RachelReaper]

oh, poor little goat, but if it kept getting tangled in wires, it might have died from getting stuck with a sharp wire, anyways if you hadn't shot it

[Baby Ricochet]

Probably. Thank you for the review

[Kaylor Mason]

I'd rather shoot a goat than a human being . . . you should've said "Look what God has provided" and had goat for dinner

[Baby Ricochet]

That f*****g goat looked and smelt like a zombie

[Kaylor Mason]

Well . . . maybe you could've ground him up and made some kind of poison or something, to give to the enemy

[Baby Ricochet]

Lol

[That_Girl]

Probably not the best move, considering their beliefs.... but like Michael G. said, there have been worse things done. Nice poem.

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you.

[That_Girl]

Welcome.

[Michael G.]

There have been worse things done, in the name of efficiency... and in the spirit of the Corps. But I'm sure some lt. took exception.
I'm surprised someone didn't skin it and got out the BBQ sauce.
Good write, BR.

[Baby Ricochet]

Considering our supply problems and we were eating mres most of the time yes. We knew there would be trouble so
We got rid of it. I didn't realize it would be as much as it was though.

[Jordan's Back]

Another interesting write.

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you

[KeeD]

Haha yeah they take their goat business seriously, it's considered as a sacred animal of offering for them. But yeah you did what you felt was right, put it out of it's misery for maybe it was hurting itself too whiles entering. Whatever it was, it helped you create this cool piece. I liked it.

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you