SIN CITY, AN KHE

I felt that this poem was pretty powerful in a sense thats from the authors point of view but then shows the girls point of view at the end. It talks about the bars in An Khe. They are named after states in America. They have decorations that will remind the soldiers of home; football pennant, plastic fruit, and the Beach Boys on the jukebox. Talks about a bar girl who is supposed to be 17 and calls you babysan which basically means baby or sweetie. the author talks about taking her upstairs to a room at the bar where the women would "entertain" him. But then its about what he wont do, he wont touch her in places. He wants to ay next to her and look and wonder what you both doing there. And not for the obvious reason either. In the last paragraph he says "she'll still go down/on you for five dollars MPC,/she'll still pretend you didn't/ burn her village to the ground,/ she'll light you up like napalm." This shows that she will forget the horrible things that you as a soldier did to her people and village but she will still render services for money. It was probably one of the better ways for girls during that time to make money.