Robert Bly -
I am reminded today of this poem by Robert Bly found in his National Book Award collection of poems, The Light Around the Body (1966):
It is a poem protesting the Vietnam War, and still applies, unfortunately, today.
COUNTING THE SMALL-BONED BODIES
Let’s count the bodies over again.
If we could only make the bodies smaller,
The size of skulls,
We could make a whole plain white with skulls in the moonlight!
If we could only make the bodies smaller,
Maybe we could get
A whole year’s kill in front of us on a desk!
If we could only make the bodies smaller,
We could fit
A body into a finger-ring, for a keepsake forever.