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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.

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COWBOY

                He strides the rallying halls
                Waving huge cowboy fedora
                Leather bindings
                Clear beige color

                Salutes the crowd
                Well wishers in Billings, Montana

WE'LL HANG SADDAM HUSSEIN

                “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

                Bleeding billions
                Hundreds of Americans
                Many thousand of Iraqis maimed or killed

                Museums -- destroyed
                Antiquities -- leveled
                A country in chaos
                Torture, dying, death

RIP THE BODIES

            Dot Com.,

            Dot, Dot,

            Come Here

            Love...Faith...Pray
            Pray...Prey

            On values...values...

NEVER

            My daughter said once again,

            Write of your childhood...

            That tiny apartment

            Of oriental rugs

            An antique wing chair

            A magnificent umbrella stand

"MARINE SHOT UNARMED PRISONER"

            Cursing, armed

            Well intentioned

            Marine

            Lifts his weapon

            Black, heavy burden

            Fires on cowering, half alive

            Unarmed prisoner