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David Emanuel

Baghdad 2003

I watch the screen
The image fuzzy green
And see the chaos unfold
Of all the things
I’ve done or seen
This can never remain untold

A streak of white
Lights up the night
As it reaches for the stars
A flash, a bang
A mushroom cloud
Seals the skyline’s scar

Crackles burst, rockets scream
All night till the break of day
As I watch, on the screen
Six-thousand miles away

[TABLE OF CONTENTS, LHS CLASS OF 2013 EDITION]