Echo's from Vietnam and beyond
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I wrote these and other poems during a span of many years. They are all based on real experiences for better or worse I do not write about others experience or out of wondering what something would be like in my head. So, I hope someone get's my writing, yet on the other hand they were written for me and me alone initially. Often I was trying to exercise daemons, hurt and to express humor and joy or my life's experiences.
Dr. Jack A. Apsche
Jack A. Apsche holds a doctorate in Psychological Studies from Temple University in Philadelphia. He is currently pursuing an advanced degree in Criminal Justice. Dr. Apsche is a researcher, author, lecturer, and consultant His curiosity in human behavior extends well beyond serial killers, from the everyday problems of everyday people, to the particular problems of Viet Nam veterans, the behavior of organized crime and law enforcement, and the rise of the German neo-Nazi movement His research centers on the quest to uncover the reasons for the behavior differences between the 'saints," the "sinners," and the rest of us. Dr. Apsche lives with his wife and family in West Virginia. USA
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Echo's from Vietnam and beyond - Dr. Jack A. Apsche
Echo's from Vietnam and beyond
By Dr. Jack Apsche
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tmp_7f5d9ca0ae4a518372f3e67307ef534b_RCmITL_html_m2857c366.jpgSomewhere near Hill 837 in Vietnam the Republic of in early 1967, cleaning my M-60. I am not sure who the kid in the picture actually is, rumor has it it was me at 18.
Dedication
This book of poems is dedicated the people who have been in my life, who inspired my writing. You know who you are and if not make something up!
Table of Contents
Copyrights
Dedication
Section One
Section Two
Section Three
Section Four
Section Five
About the Author
Section One
I Believe
Steam Trails Revisited
The mist blinks thru
The deep green vegetation
The humidity form the month’s monsoon
Creates steam trails
From body heat
My flesh has rotted
In every crevice
Of my skin
And I smell like
Meat left out on
The sidewalk for a
Week in July
I won’t ever get dry
Unless I get wrapped
In a poncho
Tagged
And flown home
For a ceremony of
A select few
Who might attend
And
Attempt to remember
That I once was human
And dreamed
The dreams
Of
The innocent
Walter Cronkite
That’s what I miss
Clean video
Tight shot’s
Close-ups
Walter Cronkite
Drug related
And Vietnam
Hot cities
And Urban guerillas
Fashionable radicalism
Its long gone
Walter Cronkite’s
Body count
Anonymity in number’s
People dying
On the front page
Or Time
Entertainment
For the dinner meals
And empty boots lined up
After Dak To
In the Inquirer
Beat poems
Hip phrases
And
Anonymity in number’s
More body counts
1 miss
Anti-war music
Hot groups
Lost hope
No dope
Kill a slope
Orange joke
Beat poems, man
Where ya been?
It’s all gone now
Just like
Walter Cronkite
Hard to Find
Love poems are hard to find
These days
So I decided to write one
For you
Instead we went to bed
Made love
Rested
And again
The Group
We walk past the wall
And look at the names
Of the dead
We look far away from
Each other
As we don’t know
Who would die
First
If we were
There
Again
The Village
The village was surrounded
We were in an ugly mood
Several men went down
There was no enemy
To be found
We torched the village
An old man climbed
Up on his hooch
To put out the fire
Polly butt stroked
Him across the mouth
As he lay there bleeding
My thoughts raced
But I did my job