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Poetry by Don Kunz
Vietnam War Memorial
When you go to the wall,
You can feel all the heat of that cool decade
Radiating back in waves from that beautiful cinder,
That charred tombstone rising from those years
Of snipers' bullets and policemen's billies,
Of burning cities and Black Panthers,
Of acid tests and other massacres
Of whose ashes this wall is made,
So that it reaches out to include you
And will not let you pass
Without at last being
In Country,
Without at last seeing
The writing on the wall.