I lay in the top bunk
staring at the lightbulb
dying in my heart that
I left my marital bed
willingly to degrade into this
horseshit existence in an olive
drab casing only to avoid
being sent to Viet Nam
Nine weeks is an instant
compared to being dropped
into shit coated bunji sticks
or maybe even made dead
Still the asshole banging
the trash can with a ladle
is still an asshole
Get me through this God
and I'll do goods things
for humanity
I did and I failed
Better to be a survivor
than a statistic