Sunday, September 24, 2006

Television News December 11, 1998


Blood draws tiny roads
across his face
an unplanned journey’s end.
He cannot talk of
The horror-joy of survival.

White-haired men
masked as leaders
know which camera angle
Profiles sincerity
while they rework clay words.

Above men’s heads a board.
On the board a boy’s body
wrapped in a flag of
a country that is not.
He died saying it should be.

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