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Iraq War Grief Daily Witness (photo) Day 141

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


An Iraqi man waits in the morgue at Yarmouk Hospital with the body of a relative after gunmen killed two men in Baghdad September 29, 2005. Unidentified gunmen opened fire on a bakery in Baghdad’s southern Dora district on Thursday, killing two men and wounding another, police said. REUTERS/Ali Jasim

Hard Time Killing Floor Blues
by Chris Thomas King

Hard time here and everywhere you go
Times is harder than ever been before

And the people are driftin’ from door to door
Can’t find no heaven, I don’t care where they go

Hear me tell you people, just before I go
These hard times will kill you just dry long so

Well, you hear me singin’ my lonesome song
These hard times can last us so very long

If I ever get off this killin’ floor
I’ll never get down this low no more
No-no, no-no, I’ll never get down this low no more

And you say you had money, you better be sure
‘Cause these hard times will drive you from door to door

Sing this song and I ain’t gonna sing no more
Sing this song and I ain’t gonna sing no more
These hard times will drive you from door to door

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