this diary is dedicated to all who suffer because of war and other disasters
cross-posted at DailyKos, Booman Tribune, European Tribune, and My Left Wing.
image and poem below the fold
The brother of an Iraqi policeman, killed in an exchange of fire with suspected insurgents together with two other colleagues, collapses outside a morgue in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Oct. 7, 2005, after identifying his body. Al-Qaida in Iraq has called for increased attacks during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, which began this week, and more than 290 people have been killed in attacks the past 11 days, many of them Shiites.
(AP Photo/Mohammed Uraibi)
A Doubt If It Be Us
by Emily Dickinson
A doubt if it be Us
Assists the staggering Mind
In an extremer Anguish
Until it footing find.
An Unreality is lent,
A merciful Mirage
That makes the living possible
While it suspends the lives.
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