terrorisms

by Mia Barraza Martinez
Poetry
“Ain’t nobody feelin’ that war.”
Diddy on the war in Iraq.

videos of wmd’s in a cave
surfaced on youtube.
they said saddam
flew the first plane,
hit the eject button
just in time.
I kept hearing bin laden
sent bush a yellow cake
on his birthday.
remember how the mailboxes
were all packed with anthrax?
we had to fumigate the entire house.
that kid you introduced me to,
soldier, you called him,
wasn’t it weird how he just
started crying?
I was glad you locked him in the closet
along with those pictures
of huddled women
dressed head to toe
in black
their eyes showing too much.
who wants to look at that?

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