Marksist Ideology

Jeffrey H. MacLachlan

The 'Nam Issue 78

no with a ks

       not an x

right ks

            yeah i can drive this

        little chevy engine

automatic transmission

           armored personnel carrier

             stock v-8 hornet nest

hang on tight

               matter of fact i am

yeah sure you can be a character

     i'll call you

     bulldog   

                nice growl     over 

the book's about   hold on that building 

        yeah the browning rounds  

      sound like

dow dow dow like the chemical company

       sure gun trees down

                   watercolor rubble

    eat another charlie eat another

  there's plenty to go

               around

Jeffrey H. MacLachlan also has recent work in New York Quarterly, The Greensboro Review, descant, among others. He is a Senior Lecturer of literature at Georgia College & State University.