Ron. Lavalette
Modern Warfare
Someone else filed the reports
and someone else read them,
passed them on to someone else
who organized the surveillance
that generated the phone call
that aided another someone
to determine the coordinates,
launch and guide the drone, set it
to hover high above the village,
laser the tiny target’s rooftop
so that the silently incoming missile
couldn’t possibly miss.
All he did was pull the trigger.
“Despite the fact that acts of modern warfare have become increasingly technological and decreasingly face-to-face and hand-to-hand, the sad reality is that they remain horrific acts that require human participation and that leave deep scars. On both sides. Forever.” —Ron. Lavalette
Ron. Lavalette is a very widely published, award-winning writer living on the Canadian border in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom. His first chapbook, Fallen Away (Finishing Line Press), is now available at all standard outlets. More than 400 pieces of his poetry and short prose have been published in both print and pixel form in journals, reviews, and anthologies ranging alphabetically from Able Muse and the Anthology of New England Poets through the World Haiku Review. A reasonable sample of his published work can be viewed online at EGGS OVER TOKYO.