We thought the vets had all come back
to live in pricipality
Instead we find that many vets
cannot discern reality

We thought the vets would all be home;
Inside their homes with family.
Without the need for deadly dreams
or the use of vile profanity.

Though many of the vets came home
to live in clear neutrality,
several more make up the core
of the nation's criminalty.

Some are hiding out the hate
they feel for blatant fallacy,
while others hide out in the woods
untrusting in totality.

At intersections you can see them
begging in humility,
and mostly we just treat them all
with utter incivility.

A few have died while on the street;
the headstones mark finality.
While some, I know, are far away,
locked up in their insanity.

The dead, the living, crazed and sane
make up our new plurality.
We meld in with the mainstream
of today's mixed up society.