Dick Nixon, I Am Lt. John Stulett, U.S. Army, 1st Cav. Div.

[unhappycamper]

Written Feb. 15, 1971


The bullet rivets an eyeball and the eyes stay blind,
Tt don't they, Dick?
Hands and eyeballs still fly off in all directions forever
from the unmercy of Viet Nam.
While interpreter Suan Hue translated the long Viet Nam secrets,
he led us like a good father holds his wildest sons
Tt with good stories -
the hand-blood gurgles now, but his fingers keep twitching
to touch something, anything, nothing and that one severed hand
Tt dies in the elephant grass
at the front door to America's conscience. What does it mean?

We could suffer for your eyes too, Dick. But would you trade
Tt them for dead eyes
in a second? You ask us over here to do it for you over there
Tt for nothing.
What does it mean?

We'll end the war with honor, you say, Dick?
Dying while we stand in line is just like dying for
Tt no reason at all.
How much longer? Every life's worth more than the death
Tt of the second
it takes to die! What does it mean?

We have nothing new to tell you, Dick?
What new way is there to save lives but stop the killing?
A soldier dies in the puddle as I write this line,
Tt a hiding child convulses
as you read it. The Killing is our wound-up clock!! tick tock
Tt tick tock,
trickling away blood, beautiful arms, my drunk buddies
Tt and beautiful slant eyes.
What does it mean? Stop and give you time, Dick?
If bullets catch up with that time we give, we've murdered
Tt lives that die
in the time. We can't let go of the bullets until they fall short!

Go after death-seekers and men who blow out eyes by being slow!
On this wet hot rainy afternoon, slant eyes melt
Tt on elephant grass
and a wrinkled man scratches his back up and down on
Tt a shrivelled hut -
he doesn't have any arms left. What does it mean?
I'm afraid to know.


John Stulett died April 12, 1971

[acmavm]

1. Change a few terms here and you can apply this to the democrats

who voted to give Chimpy all he wants, no strings attached.

And they THEY come out and try to tell everyone 'it's not over yet'.

Yes it is. They caved. They lost their self-respect, they showed they were cowards.

This can't apply to bush**. He has always been consistent in one area. And that area is that he will not bring the troops home until the 'war on terra' (what the fuck ever that is) is won.

bush** is now and always has been an 'as long as it takes' kinda guy. As long as it takes to get control of the oil. Until then our children can die.

The dems should have stood up for us. They should have done what they were elected to do.

They're worthless.