The Longest war is over

Or so they say

Again

But I can still hear the gunfire

Every night

From

My bed.

 

The Longest nightmare

Never seems to

Ever

Quite come

To

An end.

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The terms of Shell-Shock has evolved through many terms to the current PTSD. This poetry is an attempt to grapple with a nightmare, a national madness. It is poetry written out of fire and under fire. The war goes on, we are, a part of the evil. And the fire still burns.

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Winning Hearts and Minds. Rottman, Larry & Jan Barry, Basil T. Paquet, ed. Brooklyn, 1972.