What some soldiers know
You carry the pearls of war within you, bombs swallowed whole and saved for later. Give them to your children. Give them to your love. From: Dreams From The Malaria Pills (Barefoot) These are poems out of the Iraq War. Many are located by title or sub-heading at precise places or moments on a battlefield whose contours are exactly those where civilians try to live their non-combatant lives: a city ring-road or central square, a town’s back-streets, a child’s bedroom, a riverbank.
Source: workersliberty.org