Casualties

230 billion dollars
spent
2000 US Soldiers
dead
Iraqi casualties
unknown
unreported, uninportant
because we
are better
for being born
on this land;

home of the free
home of the brave
home of the slave
home of the homes
without families
families without
love
and love
without life

I cry at night
this barbarian war
the distance
weve created between us h u ma n s,
all
breathing
in
the air, the blood, the smog
gasping,
grasping for something
we
allready
have.