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My Lai 1968

Pa!   the soldier come! with 
gum and money and big big fun!
they like my aoi dai (dress) and
long black hair, 

Pa! I meet fella, stripe on arm,
big heart, big dollar and home have 
farm;

Pa! he want take me to mountain far,
Yes! OK?...Oh thank you Pa!

            ..................

Pa! I have baby now and fella gone...
I come home soon to village I can?
Yes? OK! thank you Pa!

Pa?... where you and sister and little Phu?
where Ma and friends and people too?

where the songbird breezy sing, where 
the mill and rice and fish?

Pa! there is no song, no bird no fish,
all you gone I know not where,

only here a single path and grass so 
stained by bone and death;

Oh Pa! Pa! Pa!

Copyright © | Year Posted 2015




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