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Happy Anniversary!? (poem)

By Horace Coleman

Five years of Middle East tears spurt
a rain of pain into a flood of blood.
People send sun tan lotion but
forget the take-me-home potion.
Dollars shrink and float away
as casualty lists bloat and stay.
It's worth it to show, though, that
our trigger and god is bigger.
This keeps us, we think,
free from misery as we sink.
It's easier to hack life spans and limbs
than to control our excessive whims.