Wednesday, December 11, 2024

I Met a Man in Saint Elizabeth's Hospital Parking Lot - poem

 

Lawrence Hall, HSG

Mhall46184@aol.com

 

I Met a Man in Saint Elizabeth’s Hospital Parking Lot

 

He looked at my brand-new knock-off boonie hat

Pointed to himself, and said “1970”

He rattled on about “Come and Take It” flags

And the “stupid mother******s” who fly them

 

“The mother****ing VC wanted to do that

And so I shot them d**n’ mother******s”

His wife was waiting for him, impatiently

Sadly, sadly, heard-it-all-before-ly

 

For he had been no closer to Viet-Nam

Than to some John Wayne movie

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