Racheline Maltese
AMERICA
doesn’t feel safe; it feels
like Starship Troopers
and keeps inducing that same
sort of nervous hysterical
laughter as that film does.
It’s the sound of helicopters
and mothers on the radio
listing off their sons
in the military and asking
for Walk Like an Egyptian
because it’s the one stationed
in Iraq’s favorite song.
—from Rattle #24, Winter 2005
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