Aleathia in action in CT photo by MDG

War I

$21 billion
seems a fair price
in the cycle of raping
that slides from the top
down, a tumbling of dominos
tipped with a quick stroke
from the pen,
each knowing how their hands
touched the heads
of 85,000 dead Iraqis,
absolved from punishment
as they sit back in the glow
of burning fields,
palms greased with crude,
shaking hands on side deals.

© 2007 Aleathia Drehmer/NY

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