On Being Asked to Write a Poem Against the War in Vietnam - Hayden Carruth

[Larry Robinson]

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
Abysinia 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 





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