You Know About Vietnam? Poem by Brian Taylor

You Know About Vietnam?



You know about Vietnam?
You’ve been there?
It’s all a sham.
There was no war, no war, no view.
For you
the wallpaper was peeling.

Is? Where? There?

Still no war.
The plaster’s flaking off the ceiling.

Men
who dream away a war
with a barbiturate end
where they end
who participate.

Where and what was the war then?

You Know About Vietnam?
Tuesday, August 18, 2015
Topic(s) of this poem: war
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