You know the government must have pushed them to settle,
the chemical industries.
And pay that hush money to the men who landed out there at 20.
Not for belief but because of who they were.
And were called psychos when they
said their bodies contained dioxin, like memories
they didn't want to keep.
Whose kids came out deformed.
You know nothing has changed.
No respect or grief for the losers of a lost war.
Everyone hated.
Nobody sent them to school like heroes.
If they started suing for everything that was done,
there would be no end.
There would be a beginning.
My country, wedged fast in history.
Stuck in the ice.