QUOTE : ..when a war ends, what does that look like exactly?<br />do the cells in the body stop detonating themselves?<br />does the orphanage stop screaming for its mother?<br />when the sand in the desert has been melted down to glass<br />and our reflection is not something we can stand to look at<br />does the white flag make for a perfect blindfold?<br />yesterday i was told a story<br />about this little girl in Iraq, six-years-old,<br />who cannot fall asleep<br />because when she does<br />she dreams of nothing<br />but the day she watched her dog <br />eat her neighbor's corpse.<br />if you told her war is over<br />do you think she can sleep?