Apparition

I Pause Sightless,

In My Mission

To Bring Forward Ammo, Water, Rations,

Oblivious To A Hundred Oozing Cuts

I No Longer Smell

The Flat Coral Dust, Powder Smoke,

Napalm, Burning Flesh

I Stare Through

From Pupils Dilated

In Red Rimmed Eyes

Sunk In Flesh Clothed Skull,

Waiting For Obstruction

To Move Or Not

And In Morphia’s Gentle Grasp

Hold Me

From The Demons

Of Friends Killed Young

Who Await My Coming

Copyright © 3, Nov 2002 Joseph A. Merrill III
All Rights Reserved
Sarge the Poet

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15 Sep - 23 Sep 1944

1st Marine Div

Peleliu

Based on Viewing
Tom Lea's Painting

2000 Yard Stare

See it and others at

http://joesouthpeleliu.homestead.com/PeleliuArt.html

You Will Start To Understand

See the pages at

http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/collections/art/holdings/texas/lea/

For more on Tom Lea

30, June 2004
A Marines Promise

An Open Letter to Al-Qa'ida

and

My Response

Cold Rage

A Poem Cycle By Sarge the Poet

CRY "HAVOC!"

"Cry "Havoc!" and let slip the Dogs of War"

Written Late Winter 2001

To The Corps Of Astronauts 
Our Little Noticed Heroes

Salute

Forget Hell

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