K. O. P.
by Marsha Burks Megehee
(A tongue-in-cheek poem)
If you kill a man on paper
Where does the body go?
Do you file it in Paper Heaven?
Or under "L" for Le Duc Tho?
Do you order him a tombstone
Contrived from paper mache'?
Do you hang "a pale blue
ribbon?"
Do you mark through MIA?
Do you send him paper roses?
Does a cardboard preacher pray
Over a paper map of Laos
Where he's POW/MIA?
© Marsha Burks Megehee 1999