PUNJI STAKES by Gary Jacobson © August 2006 Punji stakes are a soldier’s bane Set precisely to cause him great pain Shards of carefully sharpened bamboo Angled behind logs GIs step over ... peekaboo! Or spread by the acre Gotcha! Smiles that Vietcong wiseacre. Charlie would rather wound than kill you With Punji stakes dipped in Special excrement stew Better the infection to bring to me and you And it’s not because Charlie’s suddenly nice Giving to soldiers this infectious jaundice This booby-trap fills a need to do The greatest harm in malice. It takes more men to care For wounded than the dead Medics Doctors Nurses Hospitals to house the sick bed Costs much more money To give a soldier back his health. Besides Punji stakes are just more fun For malignant VC Hiding in stealth To do his enemy Greatest injury Without himself exposing Without his motley hide endangering.
Posted on: Thu, 04 Sep 2014 18:39:35 +0000
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