Ho Chi Minh city:
street traffic swallowed by honking horns
where a new Trump Tower
is to be built over the bones of Ho Chi Minh,
a man who wouldn't wash dirty dishes
for any rich white developer.
Ho Chi Minh claimed no deferments.
he held aspirations for his people,
his country,
and their future as an independent nation.
His sacrifice was for a unified Vietnam,
not for an irrigated front and back nine with
world-famous greens,
tidy bunkers full of smoothed sand,
and custom Italian tiles craftily laid inside the men's locker room,
where golden showers would soon soothe the skin.
Ho Chi Minh didn't play golf.
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