“Operation Cast Lead” is not the Title of a Movie
After a night of gasping
at fireworks
I nurse the consequences
of champagne.
Somewhere else they are remembering
smoke that takes forever
to clear, the ringing in the ears,
the smell of burnt flesh
among personal belongings.
-o-
“Operation Cast Lead” on Wikipedia (as always, don’t place complete trust on one source, please)
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Published on November 14, 2012 22:57