Poems: Patriotism and Superiorism

By Lucas Pinon:

Patriotism

Yay America, the land of the free,

I would die for this country.

My draft card came in the mail today,

But I was going to join anyway.

I would die for this country.

On the plane headed to Parris Island,

Yessir, I earned the title United States Marine!

I would die for this country.

On the boat headed to Saigon,

Fighting in the jungles of South Vietnam.

I died for this country.

A South Vietnamese woman mourns over the body of her husband, found with 47 others in a mass grave near Hue in April 1969.

Move boys, Let’s go!

We will show them.

(What will we show them?)

This is war boys.

We have a job to do,

And we will execute!

(What’s our job? Oh to kill...)

Our commander is up above.

No looking weak down here boys!

(How much tougher are we supposed to look?)

They want us to be aggressive,

Well we shall be the meanest they’ve seen!

(Yeah, watch this...)

By Lucas Pinon