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Srebrenica
by Matthew W. Schmeer


The there in over there is
the bodies of men and young boys
like cordwood piled four feet high,
neatly stacked head to toe to head to toe
with their shriveled genitalia pressed
into each others' chests.
The emptiness of their eyes
completes a circle.
They have no modesty,
and there are not enough graves
in the hills outside Sarajevo to
cover their nakedness.

© Matthew W. Schmeer

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