Poem 1

Water, wet, weeping these are the remnants of the storm.
The woman hangs onto the dresser as if
it were a stuffed childhood animal.  Off in
the distance a boat approaches.  The men
young and muscular lend aid to  the woman
in her flooded house.  A ladder is brought up from
the flooded garage and placed against the boat
wading ten feet above.  She slowly climbs from her
second story room up the ladder into the
waiting boat.  A man dives from the boat
into the murky deep.  As she struggles to
 pull herself into the boat a heave is felt from below.  Up and over she goes as she rolls into the waiting boat, finally safe at last.

Thoughts about "The Killing Fields"

I have to admit I originally thought that this movie would be boring.  I find it very enjoyable and am amazed at what harsh treatment military forces can give to civilians.  It was my belief that they had to treat them humanely, were in this movie the cambodians were treated very poorly.  I see now how history is a memory, all of these traumatic events are not something that can just be forgotten by someone.  They will always reside within a person's mind.  Those people will more often than not publicize their feelings and try and start a movement to help out in situations such as is presented in this movie.