gouge out your eyes

scream into the void

jump

travelling on an aeroplane from the old wars they make you jump

you see the familiar faces when you start falling

now you've landed

drive the truck where they barely fit

their bodies an amorphous mass in the back

you sit on the driver's seat, it's too small

you cannot see the road ahead but you know you must keep driving

in your hometown a stuntplane lost control and crashed on the main square

you see his body, draped in blue amid the wreckage, intact, despite the blast

there is nobody else to see it

you are alone with the dead man

you're in the war, on the east

what side are you even on? you do not know

you do not understand what they are saying

the man on the screen is still talking

they give you a gun and march you out

the damned sunlight permeates your room

you wake up

it is 11:54