7.Albright Monument, Bagdhad
Wadia's best friend's youngest sister was denied a proper burial
because for two days they couldn't douse the flames the allied
planes had showered on her tiny body. and all the paper trails
tha
D to all the roads that lead to all these basras make it seem
like we're all just 'collateral damage' waiting to be happened
in some unforeseen pentagon budget-drill. today's ba'ath re
Is just the red scare of yesteryear. and i drink myself to sleep
because i'm losing faith that any of us will ever amount to
anything more than reluctant human subsidies, the moving parts
in a d
Machine, protesting their complicity, but waiting for somebody
else to throw their body on the churning gears. i drink myself
to sleep because i'm losing faith that we, here in the cradle of
aff
E can cease this sickening drive for individual strength through
state-powers' swinging fists or that we'll ever look back and
laugh at the irony that is：an atomic murderer is enshrined in
inde
Nce, usa while 8000 miles from here (ba
Ck in the cradle of democracy) it's another banner year for a
cottage industry a ritual at the corner of george and
constantine - as foundries scramble to recast his decapitated
monument.
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