How Much They Spend on War and Football
They protect your God-given right to
play ball, sweating it out in hot
deserts while you sweat onto grass
groomed for the game. How you share
offense and defence, with leaders
who strategize, planning tactics
deployed in the field. Not as many
spectators for their sport, a competition
witnessed only by civilians and stray
dogs. Grenades become footballs
thrown in the street, land mines
at the 20-yard line, a flag thrown,
Hail Mary pass. Time-out is called.
They start all overno one has moved
an inch.
Julie Mahfood won the QWF 2009 carte blanche Quebec Prize and has also had work in: montreal serai, Literary Review of Canada, Antigonish Review, Room, CV2 & The Caribbean Writer. Julie hosts a reading series and is doing a Creative Writing MA.
