Sherry Chandler » 2006 » September » 16
from Helen Losse’s poem of that title:
I get my news from the web now,
sports from television,
unless they too show us the war, which Iam sure not to watch. Somehow, seeing
pictures without the sound keeps me calmer,
except the one in the Washington Post.The Iraqi child there—reportedly injured by
gun fire—was comforted by a woman, while
she held him—face still bleeding—in motherly arms.After seeing that, I penned some stinging words.
I actually wrote, “Can’t we ALL become people
who do not shoot each other’s children?” That’s all….
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