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This poem was written after the Croatian Serbian War
and on the eve of our invasion of Iraq in 2003.

 

Reflections on the Brink of War

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Dominoes that fall

In the minds of men.

White.

Men.

Dominoes that forever fall,

Justify greed,

Blind to displacement.

Sanitized refugees.

Heart-wrenching indignities,

Horror, multiplied.

Fear.

Unimaginable pain.

Death in the drainage ditch,

Grandmothers in wheelbarrows,

Again.

Filth.

Vermin.

Camps.

Where generations of hate

Determine to build more dominoes.

The same dominoes

That forever fall

In the minds of men.

Savage.

Men.

Justify greed,

Still,

Blind to displacement.

 

rik carlson    2/19/03