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Brief

Graham Fulton

Danang, Vietnam

The curator of the museum
of American war crimes sits beside me
on a benchin the gardens
next to the mellow Asian flowers
asks me if I’m married if not
why notstraightto the point

I tell her I’ve never fallen
in love with anyoneyet
it seems the right
answer to send out to her heart
the first question they always ask

A curious land

She searches my eyessmiles and nods
then hurries offgone forever

Later I see her
sitting beside someone else
next to the Huey gunship wreck
asking if they’re marriedif not
why notstraight

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