Thursday, January 06, 2005

Posted here Thursday, January 06, 2005 at 9:26:22 AM       1/6/2005 1/6/2005 Iraq and Tsunami   I give my gift to you My life I give The metal of the bursting grenade Enters my body, my soul Blood, scattering flesh Brain bursts Heart sags My marionette limbs Spread noodles on the ground This phallic Made in Tennessee I read on the internet A woman who came to work A few months ago Watched TV and Bush Sweat flowed off her dripping husband As the bed shook And breath Oh to have another breath My Lungs shattered like spilled popcorn Her breath picked up speed Sperm and deed And at work recalled All thought back None forward To imagine Entering me Releasing me From hope Fear I give my gift My life On a dusty road Last glimpse of Others ripped too We are to be Unremembered Togeth…   I give me gift This life This flesh This beautiful skin The quick water Rose up Like a man over a woman And more and more Like a heavy breeze with a load of anger Hit like a fist And my body yields Learned standing on earth My father my mother my childhood to water to instinctive swimming Head back for air But water Sun and sea Day after day Shimmering  fish Nets repaired Need to get to the market Nose full Taste of salt This is the food of death Don't swallow My wife my son I swallow Eyes open In swirling mud and sand mother Sounds of all sounds Enter my ears I reach In the whirling Submerging Down Crash against Something dull hard Unconscious of me I yield My gift My only Life Allah Somebody Grab me I gi…. Everything...                 ********