Our informants can't tell us where to find Allah. Helás.
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FRIENDLY FIRE

he photographed
while
he killed

ground level
like me
this image

word
bled
like me that

rosy
trigger-fingered
dawn

like me this dead
smile
without a face
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Muezzins wound the pocked Bagdhad sky

More beauty in this
Or in a dreadful burning slum
In a bullet lost
at the seashore?
Nobody is immune.

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