What will we leave behind this time?

Tent stakes, soup tins, and tarp

playthings left by G.I.s

he has grown strong in his

booby trap/back yard

The boy has learned to fly

to use trip wire as dental floss

to feed his broken grandma

“This land mined land is mine!”- with fist in air

browned from dawn’s burning sun

knows the smell of napalm but never seen it

Relief worker that looks like those who brought need for relief

The Khmer Rouge like a peeping tom
hoping for the misstep

and communism is now taught in schools

and isn't as bad as Al-qaeda,

But it was once, when there was money in it

There is no money in deltas of the Mekong

No more than in the still ravaged state of Mississippi

-humanista