GIs Looking At Killed In Action Japanese Soldier

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Open Poetry #44

GIs Looking At Killed In Action Japanese Soldier

Huan Yi
Member Ascendant

since 2004-10-12

Posts 6688
Waukegan

0 posted 2009-04-25 12:25 PM

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One wonders what
The fascination was

A soldier
Just like them
Though in
Another uniform
Lying on
His stomach
With half his face
Blown off

Was there
Any sense
Of future tense

When each
Of them
Might be
On another beach
Equally no more
Than a curiosity
For the boring hour

And who is that
Taking pictures
So prim and nonchalant
As if he were luckier
Than us all

Certain
That in another
Month or two
Despite this horror
Summarized as war

He wouldn’t be
In his nothing more
The focus
Of a callous eye

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JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

1 posted 2009-04-25 07:11 PM

Fine writing...James

Osprey
Member

since 2009-04-12

Posts 249

2 posted 2009-04-26 11:20 AM

Yes, a fine piece of writing, this certainly is.
War must be dehumanising, especially when you are conditioned to believe that your enemy is sub-human.
Drew me to re-read Keith Douglas's: 'Vergissmeinnicht'. It brilliantly delivers humanity to the slaughter.

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