Saturday, January 9, 2021

Antihistamine Dreams - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

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https://hellopoetry.com/lawrence-hall/

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Antihistamine Dreams

 

My night-time sneezing, cold, and ‘flu medicine -

It flew me back to Viet-Nam last night

Not on a battlefield or Ye Olde Veterans’ tour

But with a mixed group younger than any war

 

From a tour bus I pointed out scenes of my youth

To people who wisely were not interested

Who with their Leicas took pictures of fields

And the languid flow of the Vam Co Tay

 

And there were no hard feelings anywhere

Until someone shot me from a window

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