Reporter: Mr. Harrison, with all that’s going on in the world today, why did you decide to focus on this (Bangladesh)?”
George Harrison: “Because a friend asked me to help.”
from a press conference for the Concert for Bangladesh
this diary is dedicated to all who suffer because of war and other disasters
we honor courage in all its forms
cross-posted at DailyKos, Booman Tribune, European Tribune, My Left Wing, and TexasKos.
image and poem below the fold
A handout photo from SBS television shows a hooded prisoner being subjected to a dog at Abu Ghraib prison in 2004. The ex-commander of the Guantanamo Bay prison camp urged the use of dogs at Iraq’s notorious Abu Ghraib prison believing they would scare inmates, but did not order their use in interrogations, a military court heard.
(AFP/SBS TV-HO/File)
Mongrel Death Blues
by Joshua Weiner
What’s that behind my back?
What’s that gnawing behind my back?
It sounds like a dog crunching bones for marrow.
Bones here so old, the sun’s dried up the marrow.
What kind of dog splinters bone like that?
Don’t turn around, I hear it getting louder.
Don’t turn, don’t turn, its growl is getting louder.
Oh, don’t you growl at me, nappy rabid dog.
My joints may be cracking, but my bones ain’t buried yet.
I said, my skeleton is talking, but my bones ain’t buried yet.
Hear my belly growling? I’m hungrier than I’ve ever been.
Are you baring pearly whites? I can almost smell your mongrel breath.
Yes, your pearlies, they are snapping, and I can smell your stinking breath.
I’d turn around and pet you, but I’ve given up on pets.
I am reaching for a stone.
I swear my aim is sharp.
I swear my arm is strong.
It’s growing dark, but I won’t miss.
It’s darker now, but I won’t miss.
O shine down moonlight, my whole life has led to this.
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