by Margaret Gannon
The grandchild of
Vietnamese survivors
manicured the nails of an
aging antiwar activist
in an upscale San Francisco spa,
ambient quiet music defeated by
aggressive thunder of jets
in arrogant military formation,
come and gone
in the time it would take
napalm to strip the skin
of the tourists on Fillmore Street.
Death dressed up as
circus performance.
Margaret Gannon is an aging antiwar activist in San Francisco.