Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Dog Tags by Stanley Cooper


Right hand raised 
Swearing to uphold…..
“You’re in the army now”


Dog Tags chained 
Affirm identity
They are you 
You are them
Inseparable


Vital info 
Name
Serial number
Religion
Blood type


Facilitates identification
Wounded
Captured
Dead
A statistic


Dog Tags
Remain
Indestructible


Proof you existed


Poem Source

4 comments:

Unknown said...

Hard bodies.

Big Mark 243 said...

Dag... I miss my dog tags!

Unknown said...

i love #3, who is he?

David Dust said...

His name is Angelo Garcia.

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