Poem: Insistence

What is now called PTSD was once known as nostalgia –

what is now known as nostalgia is confusingly deemed a fondness;

such fondness was never ever real, how could it be? Shellshock: another name.

Shellshock shook that name as war ended but has war ended? We’re all at war

and all the time. Though all we’ve worn through all of this is vestiges of shame.

It’s …