The Colonel Comments

A very gripping story. A vivid and powerful depiction of crimes and violence. Those who are called to govern and accepted wholeheartedly must perform their duty with dignity.

I have read this many times and each time it's as if it's the first. Such stark horror told in an everyday way - they're having supper, the Colonel is very matter-of-fact in his complaints and the way he has dinner served before the ears arrive. He is trying to make a point and he does - what a tour de force Forche has managed with this poem. Brilliant in my view. It stays in my mind for days and my heart forever.

Not my cup of tea... thankfully not my glass of water either

The story may be true, but on the Poem of the Day Page it fills the heart with horror and gloom.

He spilled many human ears on the table! This is serious! ! Thanks for sharing this poem with us.

.............a very good start for a short story....now we just need to find out why the main characters are there having dinner with a bad guy.....and why hasn't the police locked this man up.... and thrown away the key....

harsh but maybe true in land of other

I felt compelled to read this in is entirety. It wouldn't release me. It's an odd work... haunting. I still have questions. This poem's relentless subject-verb sentences work somehow. I'm not sure how I feel....

So intense. Really deep and evoking. Putting out the story with simple, full description. Sticks

Wow! If poetry is supposed to affect one's emotions- then this poem certainly hits the mark dead on. Brava!

this is sure a poem, realism for that matter. good poem. makes sense to me

Is this poetry? For me it's swindle plus, worthy to be posted in a bus.

He's no Colonel Kurtz.

beautiful drop.reading again.

Wonderful piece of work! Bill Grace

Simply stunning! I could never have possibly imagined this sort of behavior from Col. Harland David Sanders, but there we have it.

Stunning... I could never possibly have imagined such behavior from Col. Sanders.

I find this poem quite similar to Dead Soldiers by James Fenton. Not as powerful, not quite historically located, but with a quiet and unassuming beginning that ends with a grabbing loudness of tone. Decadence attracts like crime and violence on news.

I agree with the powerful message, however, the form is puzzling to me. It is almost prose, almost like a short story or the start of one. I often think that certain boundaries can be beneficial for a poem.

This holds so much power within in, which refuses to be contained. I admire this very much.