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Saturday, December 12, 2009

Erasure Poem Using “Dispatches” by Michael Herr

Map of Vietnam on wall,

Lie on bed,

Look at it,

Too tired,

Just get boots off.

Map was old,

A marvel,

Left for years,

Made in Paris.

Paper buckled in the wet heat,

Laying a veil over countries depicted.

Vietnam separated into older territories.

That’s old, that’s a really old map.

Maps didn’t reveal much,

Reading them was like trying to read the wind.

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