Indigenous Poem by Ted Sheridan

Indigenous

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This is the way of war.....
The jungle is thick
With a yellow plague
Rice from the patty
Spoiled fish from the sewer's pond
Is all we have to eat
If we are to survive
An enemy's heightened sense of smell....


2008 © TS

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John Tiong Chunghoo 16 October 2008

yes so indigenuosly true.

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