News at Eleven: Which I didn't even know anyone there had a guitar,

but our medic, Doc Cole, had a guitar. He and I [Brian Turner] actually didn't get along very well until this time. And I found out he had this guitar, we started talking about it. And then it sort of, I don't know, it was sort of like a bridge, so we became friends after this. And so I wrote this poem after that, and it's a rare poem of mine, where I'm thinking back about home, and about being nostalgic and missing home.

Cole's Guitar

from Weekend America: The Brutal Poetry of the Iraq War

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