USAmerica Gives Bagdad to

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The Bombs Bursting in Air

Isn't it ironic?

Love of war 

is so great that

bombs are

iconic.

From the counties to the nations,

governmental celebrations

 commemorate

their holidays designate

with mini-conflagrations

of wars -  with beautification.

  FireWorks, like real bombs,

foul the air with

particles;

lucky us, we suffer not

as do  "allied" 

Iraqis

 who have been shocked and awed

by the genuine 

articles.

Small and wan,

and distant,

this perfunctory

celebratory

rocketry,

for Baghdad's 

"victory,"

calls to their minds the

crematory

we made of this now

foster-child of

nobody.

So the Conqueror, 

with all his

dignity,

and majestic 

generosity,

 gives them a 

giant Key

to their own

 city.