BLOOD-RED BLOOD

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Viet Nam Pieces

Death’s thick, sick, red tears;

Death’s harsh, metal-voiced shriek:

Death’s universal call:

“ One size fits all!! “



Death’s never-sated appetite;

Death’s eternal thirst for blood;

Death cries :  “More!  More! “

“WAR” does not care about the "SCORE"!



War was that Lady of the Night of Death

Who pimped us all away to her beds.

War was  THEIR  WAY;

But now WE know what to say!! : :



Men, women, children, baby, aged; Remember your Vets-—those who are lost still lost.

THEIR victory has not come yet!! We who’ve returned WILL NOT FORGET!!

Author's Notes/Comments: 

Back from 16+months inside Viet Nam, back on the ConUS, but still hearing body-count reports which still shredded the heart & still stunned the memory, I sat in the middle of this creation & slit the arteries of that memory, letting this pour out.

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Butch Lesley's picture

You once commented that I had been there or at least was close enought to smell it. Well, you write from the view of the player on the field, I write from the view of the reporter telling about it. From either position, it gets upclose and personel. Tell it like it is, don't sugarcoat it, especially about the battles in the mind that occure after the physical combat is over. There is where the real colateral damage is.