by Elizabeth Farrell
Now war has evolved
into smart bombs, clean kills
and all the other oxymorons
or should we say
dissolved
into turning away
from the innocent’s cries
and the screams
of an earth laid to waste.
Maybe Native Americans
had the answer
when they sent their chiefs
into battle
how easy it is to sit
and watch the statistics roll in
like the stock market
and we called them savage.
Reprinted by kind permission of the author
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