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Poem: Occupational Depravity American Style
Occupational Depravity American Style
By Genevieve Cora Fraser
April
cruelty AP
Score 1316 Iraqis
731
Fallujahans
Daughter of tribal
Chief
slaughtered
Near Kirkuk 35 Bagdad
Market bombs
Not
bread 7,350
Civilians '03 dead
Al-Jazeera cameraman
Stripped bled
Eyelid skin peeled
Back hooded
attack
Batter whack cracked
Skull village
insurgents
Friends & neighbors
Urinate on
them
Suffocate his puke
Face tie his hands
His legs
drop him
Off a bridge veiled
Secrecy women
raped
Broom handled flesh
Scourged upon a
pillar
Christian revenge
White hooded fists
Slam
guts KKK
Can't you squeal
Pig show
respect
Genuflect
Animal stand
Like a man
Or
I'll beat
The crap out of you
Bastards scream cry
out
Imprisoned machine
Gunned blood soaked
Sheiks
bent
As if in prayer
Brain matter
Splattered
On tile a matter
To contemplate
American
freedom
Is too good
For these people
Socked and
awed
Shocked into a grasp
Their deliverers
Deliver
better
Than Saddam
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