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by Bill McCloud

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This is not a poem

We didn’t drop out of school
We didn’t join the Army
We didn’t go to Vietnam
That chopper didn’t go down
You didn’t die
You didn’t die
You didn’t die

And this is not a poem

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Bill McCloud’s poetry book, The Smell of the Light: Vietnam, 1968-1969 (Balkan Press), reached #1 on the “Oklahoma Bestsellers” List (The Oklahoman). He is the poetry reviewer for Veteran, the magazine for Vietnam Veterans of America. He is a poetry editor for the online journal, Right Hand Pointing.

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