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The Long War Dead - Bryan Alec Floyd
U.S.N.
Corporal Curt Meadows, U.S.M.C.
In the warp of military time,
his father got his son’s last letter
after he had received
official word of his son’s death.
His son’s letter read:
"And there will be old memories
made alive and young
of the dying and the dead
the living have no right to forget."
Private Ian Godwin, U.S.M.C.
He stepped on a land mine,
falling up instead of down.
Afterward he lay still, listening
to his feet get up without him
and slowly walk away.
For this he was given a medal,
which he swallowed.
He was given crutches,
which he burned.
Flown Med-Evac to San Diego,
he was ordered to rehabilitate.
But he started to salute bedpans
and give orders to hypos,
and tell catheters to Fire!
He stood on his stumps,
yelling that he was going
to chase daisies up the hills
because winter had greened into spring,
that God had become rain and it was raining,
the soft mud of Vietnam cool between his toes.
Sergeant Brandon Just, U.S.M.C.
He was alive with death:
Her name was Sung
and she was six years old.
By slightest mistake of degrees
on an artillery azimuth,
he had called for rockets and napalm.
Their wild wizardry of firepower
expired her mistake of a village,
killing everyone except her,
and napalm made her look
like she was dead among the dead,
she alone alive among their upturned