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Bernhard
Langer approaches Sarajevo
Food
convoys part suddenly
revealing Langer
on the 18th tee—
each
side
of the fairway
in lakes and bunkers
Serbs and Croats lie in ambush—
a
crowd
of Moslems
holds a strongly fortified position
a good six iron away—
the
nations watch,
tortured by handicaps, caddying
for their own agendas—
Joel,
three,
assumes the leadership of the western world
and picks up the remote control—
the
putt
drops, Langer
raises the trophy
in a hundred gunsights.
Langer
won
the US
Masters in 1993 at the
time of the war in the post-Communist break-up of Yugoslavia.
©
Godfrey
Rust 1993, godfrey@wordsout.co.uk. See here
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