Gray Jacobik is carrying…
“August 1945” by Hayden Carruth from his book Scrambled Eggs and Whiskey.
She writes: It’s about four young soldiers in Italy waiting for WWII to end, getting drunk and thinking about their predicament, the Atom bomb that’s just gone off over Japan, and the general misery of war. Carruth links their situation with that of Odysseus’s soldiers twenty-five hundred years earlier, and, with deft elegance, that of all soldiers at war. It is so marvelously timeless and straightforward and heartbreaking. I’m carrying it because it represents an element of the human condition that causes me to think and to cry, and because I love it (and love Carruth for writing it and for surviving that war).
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