TWO QUESTIONS VIETNAM VETS ASK

 

TWO QUESTIONS VIETNAM VETS ASK


I ask anybody, anytime,

Where were you in 1968?


That man in the pharmacy

with the Vietnam Veteran cap asks,

Why aren’t you at the VA?


Automatic, unbidden


Asked everyday

and when he had a chance

to ask it out loud, he would


Where were you in 1968?

Why aren’t you at the VA?


Jim Bodeen

27 October 2023

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