The Boy From ROTC

I saw a boy from ROTC draw. He had a hose
and was on sand he couldn’t nail to an oddball.
The boy’s there still, I guess. In plain sight over his head
on the ground the oddball rolls and it is most of him but not all
of what’s on screen, there’s also smoke and a small man
peddling with the names of things. They take effect. The boy
has a feeling and it’s all but unified
into a certainty that he’s a boy from ROTC in a war.
Issue #4