Holy Week 2017
(‘The United States dropped the ‘Massive Ordnance Air Blast’ bomb (“mother of all
bombs”) — the most powerful conventional bomb in the American arsenal —
on an Islamic State cave complex in Afghanistan.’
Adapted from New York Times April 13 2017)
Night and day
words fell on me……
From one of them
I learned my name
Evan Boland
I
They dropped a bomb
We dropped a
We dropped
A very big bomb
on people
who do terrible evil
terrible/ people / evil
An evil bomb
An evil bomb
on evil doers
A terrible evil bomb
People / People / People
II
Something else; they
called it
‘Mother’. I
know, I know
that ‘Mother-of-all’
is just
a turn of phrase
a turn of magnitude
but
to
drop
a
bomb
and
call
it
Mother
Mummy
Mum
Ma
says what
I don’t want said
what
I don’t want
I don’t
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