Just for a Thrill: Poems

The Fall of Vietnam

THE FALL OF VIETNAM the mountain goats of Montana shed their coats good for the mountain goats of Montana the symbol of our presence in Vietnam —if we can’t prevent the Embassy from being captured by God what are we there for— the faded whites of their wedding gowns is that the right number? a ticklish subject —design writing research— “the learned & affable meeting of frequent academies” & some fatty sweat for you I could sit through all your lies missing you —but I still don’t have a good hat— 95 * “I wanna be vamped by you just you & nobody else but you” that’s not quite right: kill the flies then change the stinking yellow pillowcase I don’t have $100 to be dropping on forty minutes my hunch is it’s a gateway thing thirteen months fourteen days $300 million a day “do you remember, will you return” we never did get the two Hueys straight what I most want is people arguing on the sidewalk 96 ...