emily
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dead bodies on the side of the road;
freshly killed, bloody, grotesque VC bodies
to remind others that
VC are not welcome in this village
i’m glad they are dead;
dead VC can no longer kill;
just two dead gooks on the side of the road
as we pass by in our jeep
returning
i see the bodies
now propped up against a tree,
legs crossed,
cigarette dangling from one’s mouth;
posed as casually as dolls
by little girls
in preparation for a tea party
i find it funny,
laugh out loud;
i want to take a picture
but defer to preserve
the "Donut Dollie" image
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i should have known then
that the little girl within me
who had once posed dolls for tea parties,
who had hated the killing and dying
before she went to war,
had also died
she was as surely dead
as the VC bodies on the side of the road
© 1998
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My Vietnam Related Websites:
Women in
Vietnam ~ Read about ALL the women who served . . .
Dusty's Home
Page ~ Poetry and prose by a woman who was a nurse in Vietnam
The
Irish on the Wall ~ An effort to locate the Irish who died in Vietnam
Tim O'Brien's
Home Page ~ National Book Award Winner and Americal Vet
Emily's Poetry
~ By a Red Cross Donut Dolly
Shrapnel in
the Heart ~ The most moving book you will read on Vietnam
All About
Vietnam ~ An annotated bibliography of books about Vietnam for
sale thru Amazon Worldwide!
Battle
Dressing ~ The Journey of a Nurse in Vietnam
Project Hearts
and Minds ~ Help put Viet Nam back together
Photos
from a Holts' Military History Tour ~ My trip to Vietnam, February 1998
My Other Websites:
Maybe
Later . . . ~ My Creative NonfictionIrish
in Korea ~ Irish men and women who gave their lives in the Korean War Literature
of the Korean War ~ Don't let the literature be forgotten Samuel
Pepys ~ One of my favorite authors Chicago
Theatre Z - A ~ This is the best theater town in the country! Soccer
Literature ~ I'm a fan and I read O'Leary Lantern
~ Fire! Fire! Fire! Gil Thorp ~ THE
Coach (apologies to The General!) Poetry
of the First World War ~ Owen, Hardy and others Chi-COW-go ~
Cowz plus Commentary (this used to be a cow town) Graham Fulton,
Scottish Poet ~ Charles Manson Auditions for the Monkees
Other Important Websites:
The Truth
About Caroline ~ a really good Young Adult book by my
niece, Stacey M. Lane
Grosh Remember
Oklahoma City ~ The Civil
Service and Military will NEVER forget!
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