“Yesterday I heard a story about a
6 year old girl in Iraq who can’t sleep because she keeps thinking
about the day she watched her dog eat her neighbor’s corpse. If you
told her the war was over do you think she’d sleep? She’s seen teeth
rip through a ribcage and swallow a beating heart, and I can buy
dog tags at the mall, I can buy camouflage at the gap, I can stare at
the Vietnam Wall and forget the 2 million names of the 2 million
Vietnamese slain. So I can certainly forget about the little girl, her
dog, the neighbor, what soldiers we choke-chained in the opposite
direction of God. At 4 AM I find my father in the living room, the
news caster says that the number of US soldiers killed in war this
month was outdone by the number that came home and committed
suicide.” Andrea Gibson, Sleeping (via tenthousandrings)
6 year old girl in Iraq who can’t sleep because she keeps thinking
about the day she watched her dog eat her neighbor’s corpse. If you
told her the war was over do you think she’d sleep? She’s seen teeth
rip through a ribcage and swallow a beating heart, and I can buy
dog tags at the mall, I can buy camouflage at the gap, I can stare at
the Vietnam Wall and forget the 2 million names of the 2 million
Vietnamese slain. So I can certainly forget about the little girl, her
dog, the neighbor, what soldiers we choke-chained in the opposite
direction of God. At 4 AM I find my father in the living room, the
news caster says that the number of US soldiers killed in war this
month was outdone by the number that came home and committed
suicide.” Andrea Gibson, Sleeping (via tenthousandrings)
(Source: cerealboxshakespeare)