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Homecoming day and who awaits?

No one meets me when I arrive.

I’m finally home, their very own vet.

And do they still know that I’m alive?



I found my wife safe at home,

I see she’s healthy and well fed.

And who comes in with the weakly paycheck?

Her new husband, my once friend, Ed!



When my dad came home from WWII

Parades and family welcomed him home.

So why is it when this vet’s here returned,

Everyone acts as if he’s unknown?



I can’t take this for too much longer.

From hell to hell is where I’ve come.

Maybe I’ll be just as well

In the hell I’ll be in when I’m done.



If there is a hell beyond this world,

I sometimes think I’m already there.

Died on the battlefield and never knew

And all death brings is all that’s here.



I think that it’s time for me to find out.

The same 9mm that put a whole in me before

Now puts a whole in my head

And I will finally be able to know for sure.



So goodbye to the world that I once knew

Goodbye to the world with just one hit

The best hit I’ve ever taken in my life

Which was nothing but a bowl full of             !