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Best Minh Poems


Bombing the Ho Chi Minh Trail, 31 May, 1970
B-52: a city on its own. 
You mess with us, we’ve got technology.
I loved it when we flew into the zone:
as Ernie said, “We’ll kill ’em till they’re free.”

My job? To watch the black cascade of death
and myriad explosions in the woods:
Louisiana lilt – “You...

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Categories: minh, war,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things