dead bodies on the side of the road; freshly killed, bloody, grotesque VC bodies to remind others that VC are not welcome in this village i'm glad they are dead; dead VC can no longer kill; just two dead gooks on the side of the road as we pass by in our jeep returning i see the bodies now propped up against a tree, legs crossed, cigarette dangling from one's mouth; posed as casually as dolls by little girls in preparation for a tea party i find it funny, laugh out loud; i want to take a picture but defer to preserve the "Donut Dollie" image -------------------------------- i should have known then that the little girl within me who had once posed dolls for tea parties, who had hated the killing and dying before she went to war, had also died she was as surely dead as the VC bodies on the side of the road emily strange ©1998 |