H e a r t S o n s & H e a r t D a u g h t e r s of A l l e n G i n s b e r g

N a p a l m H e a l t h S p a : R e p o r t 2 0 1 4 : A r c h i v e s E d i t i o n

NANCY MERCADO

Iraq 2003

Soon our children

Will go off to war

Be shipped out

Like cheap products on barges

They’ll believe every piece

Of garbage told to them

Soon the children will believe

They are supermen

They will leap tall buildings

In a single bound

Soon our children will plummet

To their deaths

2004

[Originally published in NHS 2008, http://www.poetspath.com/napalm/nhs08/Nancy_Mercado.htm.]