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Operation Iraq Freedom
by Suheir Hammad
1. sleep has fled
afraid of what it will
miss what i will wake up to
this world where mad men
insult one another with body counts
2. from where i am
standing bombing civilians
is a war crime and i am standing
in jersey not baghdad
3. surreal
4. imagine the sky lit
up with firecrackers but
they are bombs
5. it is almost comical
the way the news personalities
have so little personality and so much
spin almost but not
6. i woke up in a police
state i must have gone to
sleep in one
7. what kind of armor will
protect us from these times?
poem
one way to support the troops
one way to support the Iraqi people
one way to support victims of torture
one way to witness every day