Orange Agents
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(NOTE: The text for this poem was derived from some semi-randomly lines from A.Burgess' "Clockwork Orange," DJT's statements & a wikipedia article on Agent Orange.)
Me, me, me. How about me?
i cOuLd sTaNd iN ThE MiDdLe oF 5tH AvEnUe aNd sHoOt sOmEbOdY AnD I WoUlDn’t lOsE VoTeRs
Agent Orange...one of the "tactical use" Rainbow Herbicides...used by the U.S. military as part of its herbicidal warfare program
viddy horrorshow
dEsPiTe tHe cOnStAnT NeGaTiVe pReSs cOvFeFe
an equal mixture of two phenoxy herbicides... up to four million people in Vietnam were exposed to the defoliant...
A victim of the modern age
i aM YoUr vOiCe...i aLoNe cAn fIx iT
...more recently used in Brazil to clear out sections of the Amazon rainforest for agriculture...
HOME, it said... it was home…brothers
I WiLl bUiLd a gReAt, GrEaT WaLl oN OuR SoUtHeRn bOrDeR...I WiLl hAvE MeXiCo pAy fOr tHaT WaLl
Agent Orange...first used by the British Armed Forces in Malaya during the Malayan Emergency...
What’s it going to be then eh?
fIrE & FuRy
used by the U.S. military in Laos and Cambodia during the Vietnam War...
I was cured all right
sO GrEaT LoOkInG AnD SmArT, a tRuE StAbLe gEnIuS!
the veterans were told not to worry and were persuaded the chemical was harmless
Copyright © nj V. | Year Posted 2022
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