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Not a Dream |
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Hot steaming jungles
Dotted with pungi pits
Miles of mosquito trails
Rice paddies and k-bars
Craters blown through out
Napalm raining down
Cries of wounded in the night
Mud and those bitching
leaches
Rain in torrents seeming, never ceasing
Flares and machine guns and screams
Ghosts in the
choking smoke
One more day in the land of never
Tunnels of rice and death
Hungry children
Selling
their sisters
Skinny little kids
Who rip open
their shirts
A game to them
"Shoot me, Joe, Shoot
me Joe"
Easy, Charlie, Bravo, Echo and Lima
Wake
up... wake up.
Turn on the light...
It was not a
dream
Again we were there...
Turn on the light... |
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By Faye Sizemore
Copyright 2002
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November 2, 2011 |
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About
Author...
Faye Sizemore makes her home in the beautiful foothills of South Carolina with Grant, the love of her life, as well as three dogs, two cats, two parakeets and four nanny goats. Grant is a Vietnam Veteran having served with the US Marines in 1968-69 and is, of course, Faye's muse. Faye is deeply interested in Veterans' Affairs and Veterans' Causes. She is very proud of Grant and her poetry is an off-shoot of that pride.
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