Winning Hearts and MindsLarry Rottmann, Jan Barry, Basil T. Paquet |
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... mouth My mouth My mouth tastes his blood . The gunships are firing over the Dong Nai throwing fire into the river clouds are coming in from the sea I can smell the rain , see it over Xuan Loc , over me it is monsoon at last . - Basil T ...
... mouth My mouth My mouth tastes his blood . The gunships are firing over the Dong Nai throwing fire into the river clouds are coming in from the sea I can smell the rain , see it over Xuan Loc , over me it is monsoon at last . - Basil T ...
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... mouth of magnificent death ? The tank shells are like popped cans , their meet turning in the sun . Carapace , claws , antennae- debris all stiff with death and swelled by the panting sun , what are we to do with you ? " Too many . We ...
... mouth of magnificent death ? The tank shells are like popped cans , their meet turning in the sun . Carapace , claws , antennae- debris all stiff with death and swelled by the panting sun , what are we to do with you ? " Too many . We ...
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... as a mother , it looked like a fish . " " We are the ripped forest , men who became the jungle , limed limbs whitening , silent as the mountain , as the last seal of lips . " hootch : house " Laughter shredded in my mouth . I felt my 63.
... as a mother , it looked like a fish . " " We are the ripped forest , men who became the jungle , limed limbs whitening , silent as the mountain , as the last seal of lips . " hootch : house " Laughter shredded in my mouth . I felt my 63.
Contents
Wanna Go To Vietnam | 1 |
A Bummer | 7 |
Waiting Out An American Air Strike | 13 |
Copyright | |
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Winning Hearts and Minds: War Poems by Vietnam Veterans Larry Rottmann,Jan Barry,Basil T. Paquet No preview available - 1972 |
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25th Infantry Division American Basil Bien Hoa blood Blue Jungle Bronze Shades brother bullets chest Child From Honai clouds Cobra dark dead Dick Doc Lap Don Receveur dreams dust dying earth elephant grass eyes face Ferryman's Song fire fire fire flesh Free Fire Zone Gator Body Collector Genghis Khan gifts girls gook grass Green Death Green hell green jungle guns hands Hanoi Hannah heart helicopter Herbert Krohn Hoa Binh hootches Hue City Indochina Jan Barry kill land Land Of Oz Larry Rottmann limbs lips LZ Gator Body metal Michael Casey mouth move napalm Nha Trang night Paquet peace poem rain REC'D rifle Road Hazard Saigon Streets screams Serigo shot silent sing smell soldiers soul of ships Stan Platke Surgeon's Song Tho's Viet village W. D. Ehrhart walk watch wind Wire wounds Xuan Loc Young In Rice