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.
Mason Rodrigue is a former USMC machine gunner and author of the poetry collection Rock Eater. Listen to our interview with Mason on the Savage Wonder podcast here.
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