Friday, July 21, 2023

A Japanese Army Cap - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

Mhall46184@aol.com

 

 

A Japanese Army Cap


 "A fool lies here who tried to hustle the East"


-Kipling


Long, long ago in a land far away

I met some children playing on a river bank

One little boy wore a Japanese Army cap

Faded and old – I wondered who wore it first?

 

I tried to buy it from him - an MPC dollar?

No.

Five dollars?

No.

Ten dollars?

Laughter and another no.

Twenty good American MPC dollars?

No.

 

We continued our patrol up to Cambodia

And back again

I did not leave my bones in Viet-Nam

Nor even my cap  

                              (I was a fool all the same)

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