Alfred Kisubi S"At Sunset"

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1. At sun set, lit oil-filled trenches far afield

Create a smokescreen over the city on the Tigris

Rising up above the eight-lane flyover

Lingering high above Mesopotamia plain

Sweeping over grandiose war memorials,

Pervading mosques and walled-off presidential palaces

Gliding over the flat skyline of a few high rises

2. As darkness falls, new air raids rock

The sprawling city of mud-brick houses,

3rd infantry brigade advances

Fracturing the bedrock of a people in pain

Tight-tiger caws on the trigger of the grenade

Take command to go head and invade

bang break and ransack the place

for weapons of "mass destruction"

3. Though smoke bites their eyes

Thousands of poor people take to the streets

Looking for loadable loot and eatable treats

Air raid sirens down their voices

As sun sets on their freedom and fame

Shite militias tote their AK-47 assault riffles

Sunni insurgents shoot their IED's, fomenting scuffles

4. After prayers, Sunnis protest

Joining millions in cities across the globe

To manifest newiy found freedom and fame

Burning fags and effigies of those who

As sun sets on foreign forces and mayhem

Nearby checkpoint smolder in flames

grab

Smoke rises up above and beyond

Their newly exported freedom and fame.

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