Whether or not I love you you’ll sleep well tonight. In my heart too you’ll sleep well, close to me. I’ll breathe in time to the wind. George Bush passing through these hours will leave only the lightest footprints.
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On the record the bombs kept falling long after the journalists had left.
Off the record he went out when he could in the early morning hours to watch the sky change colour undisturbed and his wife sometimes joined him.
Once a reporter saw them walking, holding hands, and he felt he should run after her to explain.
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Will the war be over when people are dying of hunger instead of bomb strikes? When the victors run out of new weapons to test? When their radioactive debris has finished decaying on the battlefields?
When the sad little wingless men they bred in captivity climb up on the podium and announce that they are the leaders of the new democracy?
The barbed wire around the US consulate will come down when the war is over. We can stop praying and chanting outside the unphotographable building,
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