Pictures At An Execution

The proud pilots of the F-16s
drop their 500-lb. bombs on the safe house
where Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is hiding,

killing him and four other people,
including a woman and child.
All the television stations

and cable networks and Internet news sites
flash the picture of al-Zarqawi’s
bloody face, the back of his head gone,

his cheeks and forehead bloody.
But, nobody shows the dismembered body
of the child, the little brain

bounced off a wall, nobody tells us that,
nobody shows that picture.
The F-16 pilots celebrate

and their comrades celebrate with them.
Nobody mourns the passing of a mere child.
No one has the balls to show us that picture.