August 24th, 2006
On Being Asked to Write a Poem Against the War in Vietnam
Well I have and in fact
more than one and I’ll
tell you this too
I wrote one against
Algeria that nightmare
and another against
Korea and another
against the one
I was in
and I don’t remember
how many against
the three
when I was a boy
Abyssinia Spain and
Harlan County
and not one
breath was restored
to one
shattered throat
mans womans or childs
not one not
one
but death went on and on
never looking aside
except now and then
with a furtive half-smile
to make sure I was noticing.
-Hayden Carruth
Neha says:
August 24th, 2006 at 02:53 pm
Kunal Goel says:
wars make the world go round.
August 24th, 2006 at 03:59 pm
Neha says:
Maybe…:(
August 25th, 2006 at 10:45 am
Isaiah says:
Why is everything in italics on the front page??? I hate it and also the wars. I only like bloodshed.
August 25th, 2006 at 06:47 pm
Kunal Goel says:
thx isaiah, fixed the italics.
August 25th, 2006 at 07:17 pm