1420

Michelle Greenblatt

1420 soldiers died yesterday
Again: 1420 soldier was the tally
The sun had set by 7 o’clock when

I was watching CNN so put this
In parenthesis it was 3:04
A.M. in Iraq 7:04 P.M. here

But I bet hardly any Iraqi
Was sleeping they were churning
The cement mixers in their stomachs

They were trying to put out the fires in
The shrapnel shocked buildings with
The Americans’ Hoses which is a perfect

Example of how some prep-school butcher’s finger
Tips trailed lines across a map until he found some
Country that pissed

him off enough,&some willing, God
-Fearing patriots to follow him. He spoke
an assembly line speech, manufacturing

Words of triumph, saying, 'Dear Little
People (My Fellow Americans)' his voice
Grinding the bones of soldiers like a machine’s.

1.28.2005-3.26.2005

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