Here, Bullet

This a very short book of poems. It is wonderfully written of this man's experiences while he served in the Iraq war. I'm not a huge poetry reader. Most of it bores me to pieces. But this book gives such emotion to a war that is so hard for most of us to grasp. I might be a bit graphic for some, but ah this is war after all.
One of my favorite poems :

THE BAGHDAD ZOO

Is the world safer?

No. It's not safer in Iraq. --Hans Blix

An Iraqi northern brown bear mauled a man

on a streetcorner, dragging him down an alley

as shocked onlookers shouted and threw stones.

There were tanks rolling their heavy tracks

past the museum and up to the Ministry of Oil.

One gunner watched a lion chase down a horse.

Eaten down to their skeletons, the giraffes

looked prehistoric, unreal, their necks

too fragile, too graceful for the 21st Century.

Dalmatian pelicans and marbled teals

flew over, frightened by the rotorwash

of blackhawk helicopters touching down.

One baboon even escaped from the city limits.

It was found wandering in the desert, confused

by the wind and the sand of the barchan dunes.

It's very sad, but it really gives you a sense of the chaotic lives our soldiers are facing daily.