Three Biographical Poems
1) Saved: at St. Josephs Hospital
2) War: and self-defense
3) Last Day in Vietnam
1) Saved: at St. Josephs Hospital
I was born downtown, on an autumn day
Under the roof of St. Josephs Hospital; Tended by nunsthey took me away
Until my (unwed) motherscreamed!
To the doctors
Thus, under the crucifix, I was saved.
# 1506 (10/16/2006; written at El Parquetitos, in Lima, Peru, during lunch)
2) War, and Self-defense
A war we waged:
For a cause, we cried, The glory of it all
Resides in the Halls Of some public domain.
Freedom was the reason,
Its said, for the blood: The sacrificethe dead;
No matter how indignant!
Its all self-defense.
Dedicated to the American soldiers found in: Vietnam and Iraq; #1509 (10/16/2006)
3) Last Day in Vietnam
Two men, and I stand at attention in Vietnam, then we jump up on the back of the five-ton truck (it will take us to Saigon) we give a last salute. The square I stood on so many times, fade its now difficult to find; here youth dominates, with young and sparkling eyes.
The dusty clouds of dirt from the tires of the five-ton, covers the war I leave behind, soon my mother will touch my hands (so I think and almost I feel); twenty-four hours have passed, Im now within reach. And upon arrival home, never once does she speak about the poor victorious logic of the war.
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