WE'LL HANG SADDAM HUSSEIN
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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 11/14/2006
“Blind and leader of the blind
Drinking in the foul ditch
where they lie."
--Yeats
Flash... like that hero
From my super hero youth
Flash... like the freedom headline
At Grand Central Station
Drinking in the foul ditch
where they lie."
--Yeats
Flash... like that hero
From my super hero youth
Flash... like the freedom headline
At Grand Central Station
“Blind and leader of the blind
Drinking in the foul ditch
where they lie."
--Yeats
Flash... like that hero
From my super hero youth
Flash... like the freedom headline
At Grand Central Station
Execute tyrant, killer in Iraq
Raised from his deep hole of rage
Filthy, bearded, conquered
Satan in ignominy
We declare justice
Love of people -
Sunnis, Shiites
Kurds
Whatever their names
We arrived in hummers
With helmets and weapons
Let freedom ring
In the decimated
Cracked earth
“Send the troops
Send the troops
Over there...”
Where?
On a map we never read
In a land we never knew
In a spot we gazed at from afar
Dusty debris
Hate
Their growing disgust
For that action --
Operation -
Free those Iraqis from fear
Some discipline expressed
Through water torture
Rifle beating
Hanging upside down
Exposed -
To lessons we learned as babes in arms
Brotherhood, Family Values,
Democracy
A dead marine
Tiny coffins
Silence
Their dictator tyrant
Will receive
Justice, his just desserts?
Copyright © Regina Krummel, 2006. All Rights Reserved.
Drinking in the foul ditch
where they lie."
--Yeats
Flash... like that hero
From my super hero youth
Flash... like the freedom headline
At Grand Central Station
Execute tyrant, killer in Iraq
Raised from his deep hole of rage
Filthy, bearded, conquered
Satan in ignominy
We declare justice
Love of people -
Sunnis, Shiites
Kurds
Whatever their names
We arrived in hummers
With helmets and weapons
Let freedom ring
In the decimated
Cracked earth
“Send the troops
Send the troops
Over there...”
Where?
On a map we never read
In a land we never knew
In a spot we gazed at from afar
Dusty debris
Hate
Their growing disgust
For that action --
Operation -
Free those Iraqis from fear
Some discipline expressed
Through water torture
Rifle beating
Hanging upside down
Exposed -
To lessons we learned as babes in arms
Brotherhood, Family Values,
Democracy
A dead marine
Tiny coffins
Silence
Their dictator tyrant
Will receive
Justice, his just desserts?
Copyright © Regina Krummel, 2006. All Rights Reserved.