"MARINE SHOT UNARMED PRISONER"
http://www.maverickmagazine.com/articles/312/1/MARINE-SHOT-UNARMED-PRISONER/Page1.html
Regina Krummel
Regina Krummel is Professor Emerita, Queens College, City University of New York. She is actively involved in teaching in prisons and will be acting as an individual therapist for a woman in prison. Most recently she has published a book of creative non-fiction, The Underground Woman and a novel Liquorto Casket, Cummings & Hathaway, publishers.By Regina Krummel
Published on 02/23/2005
Cursing, armed
Well intentioned
Marine
Lifts his weapon
Black, heavy burden
Fires on cowering, half alive
Unarmed prisoner
Well intentioned
Marine
Lifts his weapon
Black, heavy burden
Fires on cowering, half alive
Unarmed prisoner
--New York Times, 11/17/04
Cursing, armed
Well intentioned
Marine
Lifts his weapon
Black, heavy burden
Fires on cowering, half alive
Unarmed prisoner
In the remains of death
A fairy tale wasteland
A filthy trench reveals
A childs notebook
An exercise book in English
Neat handwriting
Clear printing
She isnt playing today
Neither is the other girl.
Tanks roll over cars
Starving dogs search for bodily remains
Fires burn out of control
Destroying all that remains of Falluja
the exercise book is no more
Photos destroy my morning coffee joy
Elections are expected
In the New Year
Insured by twelve thousand more American Soldiers
Tanks, hummers roll on
Soldiers shoot at all moving objects
All rebels in the wrong place
The ramparts red glare...
Our mission is here in Iraq
In the standing minaret
First Battalion, Eighth Marine Forces
Shoot- Direct hit
We turned a guy into rubble, marine boasts
More 500 pound bombs
Called in
Mosque is obliterated
Target secured
Before elections in 2005.
Copyright © Regina Krummel, 2005. All Rights Reserved.
Cursing, armed
Well intentioned
Marine
Lifts his weapon
Black, heavy burden
Fires on cowering, half alive
Unarmed prisoner
In the remains of death
A fairy tale wasteland
A filthy trench reveals
A childs notebook
An exercise book in English
Neat handwriting
Clear printing
She isnt playing today
Neither is the other girl.
Tanks roll over cars
Starving dogs search for bodily remains
Fires burn out of control
Destroying all that remains of Falluja
the exercise book is no more
Photos destroy my morning coffee joy
Elections are expected
In the New Year
Insured by twelve thousand more American Soldiers
Tanks, hummers roll on
Soldiers shoot at all moving objects
All rebels in the wrong place
The ramparts red glare...
Our mission is here in Iraq
In the standing minaret
First Battalion, Eighth Marine Forces
Shoot- Direct hit
We turned a guy into rubble, marine boasts
More 500 pound bombs
Called in
Mosque is obliterated
Target secured
Before elections in 2005.
Copyright © Regina Krummel, 2005. All Rights Reserved.