SONNY JIM

SONNY JIM

your music
I do confess
to loving
it madly

you lit our fires
with the song
on the soundtrack
to Apocalypse Now

which Vietnam
venture I am
battling to reconcile
with that
false flag
Gulf of Tonkin incident

and the bizarre revelation
that the Navy Admiral
who was at the heart of
and chief architect
of this calamitous
act of subterfuge

was none
other
than your
dear old Dad

upon which note
of strange coincidence
we end
our poem

conclude all comment
on the Lizard King