we stared at the photo of the bullet
“this is the actual bullet
and is in my possession”
said my friend
delivering his lecture*
on Alekos Doukas
Greek Australian poet
wounded with that bullet
that passed through his jaw
during The Catastrophe in 1922
idealist living on a farm in Greece
at one time
a farm with a forest on it
so green
but not so much an idealist
at that time
as the other conscripts
railing against the army
against nationhood
and patriotism
*Dr Petros Alexiou, expert on Doukas
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