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CounterPunch March 8, 2003   INVASION OF THE FLIES by HAMMOND GUTHRIE The cost of freedom in America is $320 per citizen and rising Faith-based intelligence drones distribute surface to air missals advertising God's gift of liberty in a land once called Babylon It could be dangerous Security is tight But the flies are tough Deploying to various locations Others return home Fearing for their safety Human shields and journalists Evacuate just before war descends It could be dangerous Security is tight But the flies are tough Baghdad and Tikrit Ground zero redoubt Death masks in the sand Remains containing anthrax Aflotoxin and yellow rain weaponry that didn't exist It could be dangerous Security is tight But the flies are tough. Hammond Guthrie is the author of AsEverWas: Memoirs of a Beat Survivor. He can be reached at: writenow@spiritone.com (C) 2003 Hammond Guthrie   SUMMER OF 1816 By ADAM ENGEL Constantia Singing open collars and all that hair a century-and-a-half before the Beatles it rained and rained spooky stories carrion sentient with a kind of life but ugliness accusations dead children newborn, one after the other youth movement of sorts in the parlor conversations on the lake Julian and Maddolo White Anglo Saxon Atheists pressure to perform to walk in visions of poesy outpace the game legged Superstar while the boat on the lake harbinger of -- well one should learn to wrestle water especially if drawn to it laudanum, pistols Greek and Latin roots before movies and American kids in flat-head masks on Halloween before the monster was a grunting imbecile incapable of polyglot discourse I saw a lock of Mary's hair encased in glass (New York Public Library) light brown flecked with gold honestly it could have come from any teenage girl just yesterday but it's older even than the rubber mask I've kept since I was six note: monster mask: note: monster Frankenstein was not the monster he was the Muse Adam Engel is a poet and CounterPunch writer living in New York. He can be reached at: asengel@attglobal.net   DEMOCRACY WITH A DUBYA by SYDNEY BERNARD SMITH "Democracy--in Iraq!" (A dry-drunk thirst? ...Safer to try it out at home first.) Sydney Bernard Smith lives in Ireland. Please visit his website: htttp://www.esatclear.ie/~littleredhen Yesterday's Features The Black Commentator All About Clarence Ben Granby Nightmare in Rafah Fidel Castro Bush's War on the Dark Corners of the World Niranjan Ramakrishnan Riding the Tiger in India: Will the World's Largest Democracy Become a Religio-Fascist Purgatory? Linda Heard Make Way for Reality Politics Alex Lynch Tragedy of the Ridiculous War Paul D'Amato Obey the US or Pay the Price Ron Jacobs Peace Treaties, Nukes and North Korea Shulamit Aloni Murder Under the Cover of Rigtheousness Keep CounterPunch Alive: Make a Tax--Deductible Donation Today Online! home / subscribe / about us / books / archives / search / links /   CounterPunch Available Exclusively to Subscribers: CounterPunch Special: The Persecution of Gershon Legman by Susan Davis: Smut, the Post Office, Commies and the FBI; Reeling Democrats: Is Pelosi the Answer? Gandhi v. Hitler: the Secret Race for the Nobel Prize; Sullying Mario Savio's Memory; Lynching Then and Now; Earn While You Learn: Chris Whittle and Child Labor; The Case of the Pompous Professor; The Class Struggle in Boston: All that Effort, But What Did They Get? Remember, the CounterPunch website is supported exclusively by subscribers to our newsletter. Our worldwide web audience is soaring , with about seven million hits a month now. This is inspiring, but the work involved also compels us to remind you more urgently than ever to subscribe and/or make a (tax deductible) donation if you can afford it. If you find our site useful please: Subscribe Now! Or Call Toll Free 1 800 840 3683 home / subscribe / about us / books / archives / search / links /

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