WE'LL HANG SADDAM HUSSEIN

“Blind and leader of the blind
Drinking in the foul ditch
where they lie."
--Yeats

Flash... like that hero
From my super hero youth

Flash... like the freedom headline
At Grand Central Station

Execute tyrant, killer in Iraq
Raised from his deep hole of rage
Filthy, bearded, conquered
Satan in ignominy

We declare justice
Love of people -
Sunnis, Shiites
Kurds
Whatever their names

We arrived in hummers
With helmets and weapons
Let freedom ring
In the decimated
Cracked earth

“Send the troops
Send the troops
Over there...”

Where?
On a map we never read
In a land we never knew
In a spot we gazed at from afar
Dusty debris
Hate
Their growing disgust
For that action --
Operation -
Free those Iraqis from fear
Some discipline expressed
Through water torture
Rifle beating

Hanging upside down
Exposed -

To lessons we learned as babes in arms
Brotherhood, Family Values,
Democracy
A dead marine
Tiny coffins
Silence

Their dictator tyrant
Will receive
Justice, his just desserts?