Friday, November 8, 2019

Indo-China: Toilet Paper in Your Ears - poem for Veterans' Day / Remembrance Day

Lawrence Hall
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Indo-China - Toilet Paper in Your Ears

3M Sued for Defective Military Ear Plugs
-News Item

We weren’t issued defective ear plugs
We weren’t issued any ear plugs at all
And so we carried toilet paper in wads
To stuff into our ears when the racket began

We weren’t issued lightweight jungle tops
I inherited mine from the remains
Of a boy who had stepped on One of Theirs
There wasn’t much left of his trousers

The fetid river water washed out the blood
I carried toilet paper and some smokes

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