"I am your yankee doodle dandy"
Ron Kovic was paralyzed by wounds he received Jan. 20, 1968, in Vietnam. He now contemplates "The Forgotten Wounded of Iraq" (all 20,000 of them) in prose and poetry:
I am the living death
The memorial day on wheels
I am your yankee doodle dandy
Your John Wayne come home
Your Fourth of July firecracker
Exploding in the grave
Read more at truthdig.
1 comment:
I hate it when guts lie.
It's almost as bad as when Presidents lie.
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