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    The Long War Dead
    The Long War Dead
    The Long War Dead
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    The Long War Dead

    By Bryan Alec Floyd

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    “Terse, hard hitting poems that treat the Vietnam War in the style of the Spoon River Anthology: portraits (often posthumous) of 47 marines who served in Vietnam and what the war did to them.” — Los Angeles Herald Examiner
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateNov 10, 2015
    ISBN9781504023832
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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

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