a poem for you Danny

a poem for you Danny

so long gone

Nam Nam damn Vietnam

not much of you came back

just these lingering memories

that come in the day and come in the nite

welcomed, unbidden, forfended

the trick doesn't always work

remember that time?

along Old Orchard Road

Bone Orchard? cemetarily asking

no bone orchard you that nite

living boner, asking Dya moan for the bone?"

implishly

completely contradicting

the taciturn structure of your face

I quickly take a cold, wetted and wrung,

coldwetwashcloth to my face

and struggling to

control again

the steering wheel of my thawts,

I reorient them again

to the pleasures and pain

of the task at hand ....