~Vietnam/ Laos 1972
Known variously as:
Indian Country,
the ****
the Jungle
& the Zone.
****** stumps,
flying metal,
charred flesh,
screaming agony,
cellular fear,
burning choppers,
dying men,
dead eyes
staring,
betrayal.
“Don’t mean ******* nothing.”
Not a place
on a map,
but a state of mind
-
my mind.
Vietnam has fallen,
but the Zone
remains
a jungle
in my head
& some things
return me there.
There I learned
the necessary.
In the Zone,
only predator and prey,
**** or be killed,
win or die,
the quick and the dead.
In the Zone
only survival matters
-
no morality,
no right or wrong
no lies,
no truths,
no fair,
no unfair.
No rules at all.
"It's **only a ****
**** it."
In the Zone
everything is allowed…
meet the enemy,
destroy him,
maim him,
outsmart him,
walk away
with the blood of others
squishing in your boots
feeling gloriously alive.
Friend,
brother,
enemy,
child,
lover,
you do not
- ever -
want to meet me
in the Zone.
–mce
Apr 17, 2015
Apr 17, 2015 at 10:53 PM UTC
~Vietnam/ Laos 1972
Known variously as:
Indian Country,
the ****
the Jungle
& the Zone.
****** stumps,
flying metal,
charred flesh,
screaming agony,
cellular fear,
burning choppers,
dying men,
dead eyes
staring,
betrayal.
“Don’t mean ******* nothing.”
Not a place
on a map,
but a state of mind
-
my mind.
Vietnam has fallen,
but the Zone
remains
a jungle
in my head
& some things
return me there.
There I learned
the necessary.
In the Zone,
only predator and prey,
**** or be killed,
win or die,
the quick and the dead.
In the Zone
only survival matters
-
no morality,
no right or wrong
no lies,
no truths,
no fair,
no unfair.
No rules at all.
"It's **only a ****
**** it."
In the Zone
everything is allowed…
meet the enemy,
destroy him,
maim him,
outsmart him,
walk away
with the blood of others
squishing in your boots
feeling gloriously alive.
Friend,
brother,
enemy,
child,
lover,
you do not
- ever -
want to meet me
in the Zone.
–mce
OGR: the only a **** rule meaning **** anything Oriental, no problem.
