"Dear John Wayne"

I wasn't sure how I was going to react to the poem "Dear John Wayne". I felt that Erdrich was very straight to the point and brought her forward attitude across in her poem. It is obvious that she is upset at John Wayne with her tone. Especially, "Everything we see belongs to us. The eye sees a lot John, but the heart is so blind." I like how she calls him out on some of her problems with him. The only phrase that bothered me was "Even his disease was the idea of taking everything. Those cells, burning, doubling, splitting out of their skins." I don't get why she had to add that to her poem. I felt that it was irrelevant and uncalled for.