Roger's Poems

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Copyright ã 2000 by Roger Ables, All Rights Reserved

GOOD NIGHT SAIGON

GOOD MORNING SEATTLE 

“You can’t go home again”

--- Thomas Wolfe

This is not the spring I knew a year ago

Leaving then and returning now

Both have been uncertain seasons and

Each different but yet very much the same

There are two cities a day apart in time

But there is a world and a lifetime between

I’ve come to one in fear and anticipation

I now come to the other in doubt and confusion

Saigon, like blood is warm and wet

Seattle, like ice is cold and wet

Good night to death, good night Saigon

Good morning to rejection, good morning Seattle

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