The Vietcong,
Those yellow little fuckers.

The rich green valley;
Our ground at first light, 
Will be theirs again tonight.

It wasn't the cackle of AK rounds, 
That rattled my senses beyond all bounds.

What got to me worse
than anything else
Were those brown little suckers:

The Leeches.

Robert Tracy © 1992

Leach Valley
Along Song Lo Dong River, apx 17 km SW Da Nang.
Quang Nam Pr., I Corps.