WAR

American as apple pie  

GI - government issue  

Your soul might belong to God, but your ass belongs to the US Army.

1968

Hood, sweet young sad eyed GI 

Pissed off emptied out

Stretched too thin for fuck you just wanted left alone

Rotated out of Nam into cool your heels short time worlds collide would collide macht nicht no matter where no matter what no matter

Wraith kid 

watched death smudge air 

watched death slide by cold war GI's 

watched death pool 

Scared the shit out of everybody 

Could have dissolved like salt in rain no energy to him occupied so little space hardly there

Uniform Code of Military Justice finally did him in

       

Spec 4 

busted

PFC 

busted

Private 

busted

court martialed

gone

Bring it on down:

airborne

infantry

combat

dark eyed 

sweet young

eagle 

screaming 

eagle

Hood

sweet young

Hood

Turned into a ghost

Sad eyed GI.

gone.

What is it good for?  Absolutely nothing!