Bloodbath Sonnet
Fish? I don't remember. Yesterday's newspaper provides
little guidance. Missile strikes target the dog runs in city
parks, collateral damage notwithstanding. How many dogs
must die in order that democracy prevail? Who even counts?
The professor's list of ten top American movies provokes vio-
-lent action on the part of both Israelis and Palestinians. Rage
runneth rampant. What, no Alfie? No Godfather? No Welles?
Clinics and hospitals overflow. Acrid smoke fills the air.
New list to draw up: Top Ten Bloodbaths of All Time. Rwanda,
yes. Only machetes used that time. The Holocaust, yes. WWI, yes.
Mustard gas, yes. Hiroshima, yes. Nagasaki, yes. Bosnia, yes. Cam-
bodia, yes. Amer-Indians, yes. Darfur and Congo, yes, yes, yes.
Start reaching back. Start looking forward. List stretches both
ways. New ways of death dealing death. Old ways good enough.
Hal
Halvard Johnson
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