this diary is dedicated to all who suffer because of war
with special love and honor for Cindy Sheehan and the residents of Camp Casey
image: Residents disperse as the U.S. troops, not seen, approach the body of Fras Hameed, an Iraqi policeman assassinated by the unidentified gunmen, in Ramadi, 113kms (70miles) west of Baghdad, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2005. Fras Mohameed was killed and thrown on the street from a vehicle.
(AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
Cross-posted at DailyKos, Booman Tribune, European Tribune, and My Left Wing.
image and poem below the fold
She Speaks of Death
by Barbara Pescan
Oblivion, she said
in a weary voice,
is what is after death.
There is nothing after death
but nothing
and that’s all right with me.
It made good scientific sense,
nailed to the cathedral door
of her religious childhood.
And when her husband died
a few years later
oblivion
pinned against eternity
sagged in the middle
and in its folds
sweet disbelief surprised her
and the hope
she hadn’t seen the last of him yet.
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