"Boys' Club" ~Dusty Sound!
Stay out of our treehouse!  No Girls Allowed!
young males of the species with simian proclivities
seeking to exclude with secret places and passwords
seeking to define by codes and handshakes
measuring peepees they fancy as peckers.

Well, this ole girl is crashing your club
'Cause I share your secret passwords and places:
didi mau and dinky dau, KIA and NVA
Ripcord and Phu Bai, Ann-Margret and Chu Lai
Nuoc mam and freedom birds and don't mean nuthin'.

I am boocoo tired and have titi patience
with your REMFing No Girls Allowed
You will let me in because you well know
I've lived in your jungle
I've climbed your tree
We both know you can't bullshit me.

Army Nurse Corps, Republic of Vietnam

©1995 by Dusty
First appeared in INCOMING!, Vol. 1, Issue 2, Island Poets, 1995.
Ed. Barbara Menghini Whitmarsh


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