Rainbow Death by Hubert Wilson
America did not foresee
Green, pink, purple and other colors death potpourri!
Expecting others to pay a high price.
Now thinking twice?
Toll on the innocent and unborn.
Omnipotent and disregarding who will mourn.
Reflective about all the illness, birth defects and prematurely dead.
All the deceit continues to spread.
Nefariously America led astray -
Generations untold WILL pay -
Execrable effects of agent orange spray!
Conflicts
The poem talks about the Vietnam War, it shows that the effects of war that still exist. In the Vietnam war many people fell ill because of the spraying of Agent Orange. Hubert Wilson shows that although the war is long over, the after effects of war still haunt us. In the poem, he mentions Agent Orange, which is a herbicide and defoliant used by the US military in its herbicidal warfare program during the Vietnam war. Agent Orange and other herbicides that had a lasting effect on the people who were in contact with it. During the war, about 4.8 million Vietnamese people were exposed to Agent Orange, resulting in 400,000 deaths and disabilities, with 500,000 children born with birth defects. During the production of Agent Orange, dioxins were produced as contaminant, which caused numerous health problems to millions of people exposed to it. He shows how it describes how innocent people lives are destroyed and that even though literally the vietnam war is over, the effects of the war still lurk.
sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_Orange
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJxb7CY13uc
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