Give Me Another Try Poem by Martin Lochner

fueling myself at the local bar

flying out into the dark, vagrant nights

I became a kamikaze zero picking
dog fights

with the loser punk in the pawn shop
mirror

broken nosed angry I joined the force

finding myself between the wounded
clearly seeing myself between the dead

life here in the limits made sense

the appreciation increased with the threat

praying no early goodbyes

“God give me another try'