I can make a guitar out of anything

Cigar boxes
cookie tins
wine boxes
old shovels
tree branches
war memories
and PTSD
flashbacks from
bloody gauze
and bleach bottles

from my fathers
tombstone or
my mothers
oxygen machine
from my
grandfathers
baseball mitt
from the laces
of his work boots

from broken
relationships and
old apartment
keys from
all the CD’s
I lost when
it was time
to split our
lives separate
when it was time
to remember
who owns what
instead of
who hurt who

I can make
a guitar
out of
anything
and a
home made
guitar is
the very
best guitar

to sing
the blues.

Found poem during a shooting at the local Mall where my son works

just
a
one
line
text

dad
I
am
ok.

Matthew Borczon recently retired from the United States Navy reserve after 20 years of service. He is a nurse and poet from Erie, Pa who has published 17 books of poetry, the most recent PTSD a living will is available through Rust Belt press. He publishes widely in the small press and is a husband and father of four children.