The Smell of the Light by Bill McCloud

The Smell of the Light by Bill McCloud

Author:Bill McCloud
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: vietnam war, war poetry, agent orange
Publisher: Babylon Books


when I saw three MPs chasing the

tallest man I had ever seen in a uniform

He had no flowers in his hair so I had a

pretty good idea where he wasn’t going

MOCKINGBIRD

When I was told I was

being promoted I was

also told I’d be going to

Dong Tam to make it official

and would stay there overnight

That evening they dropped

a couple of white sheets

down the side of a shed

because it was their

regular movie night

The film we watched was

To Kill a Mockingbird

A timeless movie that would

become a beloved classic

I watched it that night

under the skies of Vietnam

While Scout and Jem grew up

over a couple of years I was

moving up the military ranks

None of us were as innocent

as we once had been



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