by: Willow Kang
Juliette, she treads
on the glow sticks of the skyscraper,
Hebe’s moon shining on her bare stilettos
precariously waltzing on the rooftop of Las Vegas
twirling with dear Leonard
Leonard is telling Juliette war gossip;
that time he stayed in Aitape’s London Tower,
leaving as a ghost & Vegas is telling stories too
whispering promises of immortality into the fountains,
a jackpot Leonard severed heads for and lost
Notes for the editor and reader: Leonard Siffleet was a young Allied soldier who fought in World War 2 as an Australian Special Forces soldier. His post was in Aitape, New Guinea, where he was captured by Japanese soldiers, and subsequently beheaded. Siffleet left behind a fiancé, Clarice Lane. His beheading was photographed by a Japanese soldier, and till this day, remains as one of the most shocking images taken in World War 2.
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