Nobody Gets Off the Bus:
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Poetry by Don Yost
WHUP...
Nothing sounds quite like it...
It has a heaviness to it.Like the toll of a church bell
on a rainy day...The muffled drum of John Kennedy's
funeral procession.It has the hopelessness of a
lost child...And the loneliness of the
last leaf in autumn...But nothing has its
sadness...There's nothing as sad as
the sound of its rotors...Nothing sounds like a Huey.
Don Yost served in Viet Nam 1968-69, Americal Division, 11th Infantry Brigade, grunt and combat correspondent.