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My American Night (The Georgia Poetry Prize) My American Night by Christopher P. Collins
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“From this war, I am but a shell
lodged in a desert's flesh--

bone on bone on bone.”
Christopher P Collins, My American Night
“He asks me if I'd ever killed someone and rushes from the kitchen table, but I ask him to stay, to listen.
"Collateral Damage," I say, "is the polite way of expressing the death of civilians who unknowingly mingle with the enemy."
He's thirteen now, fascinated with video games glamorizing real wars. I rise to leave, and he says, "But Dad, you didn't answer my question."
I did.”
Christopher P Collins, My American Night