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- On CNN, I see a twelve year old boy
- with dark curly hair, his face like a soft desert
- moon accusing the camera.
- But that's all I see of him, for the rest
- hides under a tent where, as the doctor reports,
- a badly burned torso and what's left
- from two blown off arms wait for medical supplies.
- A weeping aunt and uncle, hovering over,
- tell him not to cry, though he knows his mother
- and father, sister, did not survive
- the late night missile raid.
- "We thought we were safe," she says,
- "we live in a farming area, no military targets.
- We went to sleep thinking we were safe.
- They said we would be safe."
- When asked what he wants, Ali answers,
- "Two arms, take me anywhere, but
- not to America."
- 4/16/03
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