commentary | poetry | fiction | chicago | spring 2008   Growing Up War | Amy Groshek Scandal was something a president came with, like speeches, or a suit. War was the fifth season, that came between elections, and was always fought in a country that had no snow. There was no blame or cause to the matter, only the matter there—like toys it was good to pick up, or the bed it was good to make—dropping from TVs and radios onto the rug, the backseat of the car, the curling linoleum floor. Follow Mom’s shoes on their errands, the dime store fabrics, the bank, and it would be there, scandal or war, descending to our ears. Our grandfathers waded to Normandy, Iwo Jima, like a hard but needed job, our fathers went to ‘Nam instead of Canada. But we learned war on the way to the grocery store, where no matter how little Mom could spend on noodles, flour, tomato paste, we’d get something sweet at the checkout if we were good.
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