D's Bones » politics http://www.dsbones.com New and selected poetry of David Stallings Sat, 21 Jan 2012 21:59:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Security http://www.dsbones.com/2003/security http://www.dsbones.com/2003/security#comments Tue, 15 Apr 2003 00:33:21 +0000 David Stallings http://www.dsbones.com/2003/security/ Continue reading →]]> 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.


What a world.

]]> http://www.dsbones.com/2003/security/feed 0 Frames of Horror http://www.dsbones.com/2003/frames-of-horror http://www.dsbones.com/2003/frames-of-horror#comments Wed, 19 Mar 2003 20:27:50 +0000 David Stallings http://www.dsbones.com/2003/frames-of-horror/ Continue reading →]]> 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.


My daughter advised not looking at the photos snapped during the “accidental” death of Rachel Corrie, the young woman from Olympia who was protesting Israeli destruction of a Palestinian home. Of course, I did look at the photos and was horrified and fascinated by the beauty of Gaza, the simple plainess of a death. Why do people stand in front of tanks and bulldozers, often paying the price of life? I bow to that quality in humanity.

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