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Security

By David Stallings © 2003

Sharply dressed
State Patrol people
encourage us ferry riders to relax.
Mothers in airports are asked to taste
their bottled breast milk,
while web sites award prizes
to the most stupid of these measures.
In Iraq a new orphan,
both arms blown off,
knows life will never be
the same.

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Frames of Horror

By David Stallings © 2003

The camera angle clarifies.
The Gaza landscape is open.
There are only these things:
a young woman wearing
a bright orange jacket,
her bullhorn,
the protected Israeli soldier-operator
of the huge US-supplied bulldozer,
And fear.
Down with the demonstrator!
Down with the house!
Down with life!
Down.

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