Letters From The Hole

In 1975, I registered for the draft and graduated from high school. That was the year that Saigon fell and the United States pulled out of Vietnam. I had dodged the bullet and headed off to college. My classmates were Vietnam Vets and Journalistic Rebels ready to change the world. The rest of the 70's was filled with the Cold War, Jimmy Hoffa disappearing, the Jonestown Massacre, the Soviet invasion of Afganistan, and the development of the nuetron bomb. For me, it was time to question our existence and our purpose. These poems written late at night, on pieces of scratch paper, became Letters From The Hole.