"Far Away"

by Mason Rodrigue

Around
Her hair
She wore a yellow ribbon
She wore it
in the springtime,
in the early month of May
She wore it for that young Marine
who's far, far away
One day
He came
Back home from his deployment
He came back in the winter
Right before Christmas Day
In bed
He stared
Holes into the ceiling
In his eyes
she saw
her young Marine
was far, far away

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Mason Rodrigue is a former USMC machine gunner. Listen to his most recent interview on the Savage Wonder podcast here.

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If you give monkeys enough time, can they really write Hamlet? How did Leon Trotsky actually react to finding an axe embedded in his head? What does it take for two strangers to fall in love without screwing it up? Are you having a bad day or are you simply stuck in a "Philadelphia"? The VetRep 2022 season of staged readings kicks off with an evening of fast and funny staged readings featuring the whimsical comedy of David Ives.

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