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FLOOD – VIETNAM
Lust rain
Preying on dryness
Eating up the land
And rushing off
To some no-where else.
We all together
Cannot be damned
For letting you win
After all,
Your wetness rolled by,
Taking with it
our mud,
Tears,
blood,
And even hope.
Until time
Blew sand
Over our eye-sores
And the wind
Kissed our dead.
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June 6, 1967 South
Vietnam
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FOURTH OF JULY 1967
– SOUTH VIETNAM
Rockets red glare!
Fourth of July!
My mother-country
So far away,
We are your bleeding womb
Filled with
young boy warriors.
We are your
naked dead
and dying sons.
We are your
forgotten heroes.
We are your
Home sick dreamers,
And poets,
Seeking reunion
With the world
We once belonged to.
Do not forget us,
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July 4, 1967 - Somewhere over the Delta - South Vietnam
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WASHINGTON LORDS AND KINGS
Someplace in Washington DC,
War machine manufacturing whores
Dine and wine
With old congressmen
At fancy French restaurants.
While I sit here
Absorbing the rain,
And eating out
of a small tin can,
That is neatly set
On top of a muddy sand bag.
It just seems
That the truth
Must be some place out there
But no one can see it
And no one
Wants to stop
The rain.
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March 13, 1967 - Phu Loi, South Vietnam
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CAROL – HAS IT
BEEN A HUNDRED YEARS?
My tired
War torn heart
And body
Wants to stop
The reality of this dream.
I want to wake myself up
And roll over
And find you there.
Memories,
Of your flashing,
sunshine smile,
And soft laughter,
Brings me a moment
Of sanity
In this insane place
Filled with dying
And
Lonesome young poets.
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July 1967 - Base Camp, South Vietnam
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AMERICAN DREAMS
June 1967
War Zone C – South Vietnam
My mind bleeds
With emotions
That as I child,
I never thought
And only dreamt
In movies.
There are no more dreams
Of John Wayne
Leading the charge
Up some glory hill
For the movie cameras.
No flag raising
Photo opportunities
For those who
Have lost both arms
And legs
and
No medals
That could possibly restore
My faith,
Let alone my soul,
To that Star Spangled fever
Of my youth.
For me
There will never be
Another American Dream.
Not when I have lived
The American Nightmare!
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June 1967 - War Zone C – South Vietnam
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ON SEEING AN EXPECTANT MOTHER
Mother to be,
Ripened with creation
And lingering
On the edges of hope.
Your child,
Still has embryo warm smiles.
What kind of a world
Can he anticipate,
When your womb
Releases him
And cuts the cord
That binds him to heaven?
Will
He some day
have to look
Back at us
Through the eyes
Of a dead soldier?
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August 1967 - Phu Loi , South Vietnam
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