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Date Posted: Mon, May 22 2023, 15:17:39 PDT
Author: Don Poss
Author Host/IP: cpe-104-173-58-12.socal.res.rr.com / 104.173.58.12
Subject: Agent Orange and Cancer - poem

Dragon’s Tidbit
Agent Orange and Cancer
(c) 2023 Don Poss

Danger lurks in my darkest dreams
Dragon lingers through decades of Ill-intent …
presence of indifference … lying in wait, slumbering …
one eye slit-a-peeking.

Ignored by the big Agent Orange,
Til now, wondering why all these years many Brothers were not;
and watched impotently as they were sniped down with fini-diseases,
chemical hell … or scorched by radiation whom Sol
Itself spared the guilty.

Then … just because …
Dragon falls from dark clouds, swoops in search of
the ignorant one who thinks he might skate by, ignored by
His soon to be best-bud, snaps wings and rides a mighty convex away;
ravaged morsel wedged between feted-talons, clutched neatly for the nestlings.

Clacking jaws of Chemo and Radiation nukes await—
Bombs away … the nothing-left soul, sucked to dry hulk—
veteran’s translucent shedded skin, blue veins dancing o’re arthritic bones; tendons fossil-tough as a third-rail …
bones, and organs too slowly cancer-dissolved …
tumors surfing its bloody wake.

Down for the count … not exactly …
AO no longer ignored … there are ways and veteran backups to join your fight.
I won’t give in— and am
Not yet a rattling-throat in the night.

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