A Nose for Patriotism

Collage of images from Wikimedia, CDC, Wikimedia, CNN

“Kilroy was here”
Two hands
Grip the top of a wall
Pulling up into view
Just the top half of a
Bald, round head
Unblinking eyes
Watching with
Long, bulbous cartoon
Nose
Resting on the walltop

“Kilroy was here”
World War II’s
Ubiquitous
GI graffiti
Morale booster
Innocent
Unblinking eyes and
Big schnozz
Painted on the
Nose of a
C-47 transport plane
Scribbled on
Bombs
Battleships
Bunks
Barracks
Bridges
Brick walls
Railway cars
In concrete bunkers
At the Battle of the Bulge
“On the black, charred walls of an abandoned barn, scrawled in white chalk”