Kilroy

"Kilroy"

Kilroy, mustered out at last, stepped
down from his long vigil on the walls
above the whole damned world's
urinals--

and wept.  Old Adam Kilroy, the first man
anywhere, hero to us all and saint
to combat soldiers, has packed it in,
refusing to negate his magnificent
career in defense of the last state
by serving in Viet Nam.

--John Haag