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Posted on April 14, 2003 by David Stallings

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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Posted in 2003 poems | Tagged commuting, politics, war

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