a choice of enemies
the Krauts, the Japs, the Russians

We played concentration camp
inspired by my brother's obsession with
The Great Escape
(it took two nights to show it on tv we were
at his mercy only he had seen the whole thing)

Our concentration camp was run by Hitler and Krushchev
Beth played a crazed Krushchev
taking off her shoe and banging it on the ground

My brother played the cagey American
Steve McQueen
and he would sit in the cooler
bouncing a ball off the wall

And me I was just another prisoner.