Douglas
Barbour
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for an angry fall 1. They are the enemy & we know they are we said realistic expectations all-out effort will not end Here we take our stand launching indefinitely what are reconfirmed moderate to severe damage to the terrorists everywhere against our good will These maps explain everything including which tyrants we have to support to save democracy A burned chador or hospital is only the usual collateral damage In their cities they will come to understand this in ours they already do 2. The US initiative, they all spoke of razing shepherds’ houses, said to fight terrorism, to take a stand Here is my body politic always they are suspected Islamic rebels planting bombs on the streets of ‘our’ cities Look, the maps do not lie Only four hundred, we have the guns You have been burned by negotiations again and to exchange the land of god to have safe cities is not enough 3 ‘Serbian policemen’ or ‘the Yugoslav army’? they seem effectively intimidating either way Whose pixilated face said compliance is not a reality & who cares? Here & now dug into the hills opposite shivering nights & days are alive with the sound of mortars, the missile’s song, the euphemism working for whose greater glory? Our maps still say Sarajevo too, not to mention Kosovo, 600 years old but we know better, the buildings not blasted are burned & not a single roof remains to keep the snow & ice from filling in the empty holes of the cities sit the deer deer’s silence thicket of grass thick stems of brush of insects buzz & ears listening for those other sounds sit there the deer / silent & slowly going in to that space alone there sky bright blue everywhere smudged white fluffs move quick shadows in the grass beyond the trees heavy slabs of browns greens & the sly animal movements you listen for in there under the thick vegetable roof listen for danger go in to yr silence a peace there you sit the deer quiet the wind whispers peace for the moment for this time go in to the thicket lie down be the deer’s silence be there >>>Árni
Ibsen
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