Corpse’s Point of View

September 20, 2007

Corpse’s Point of View

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From the point of view of a corpse, Thursday’s die-in on the steps of the U.S. Capitol was overwhelming and diminishing. I was one of twenty some corpses lying dead in a river of blood in front of police and tourists and a color guard of Iraq veterans. I was one of a pile of corpses. You could have added or taken away a corpse or two, and nobody would have noticed. Thirty or forty other corpses were picked up inside the Capitol and taken to jail, and nobody noticed. And as I lay dead on the concrete, someone said the name of a dead Iraqi.

U.S. soldier. Then someone said the name of a dead Iraqi. And they kept saying them. New names. Unique names. Unknown names. “Son of….” or “Woman and baby.” And as my flesh began to slowly rot in the sun, they read name after name after name, and they never stopped, and I understood that I was one corpse in a very large pile of corpses. And my mind would drift off, until the woman’s corpse beside me, which was crying, would say through its tears “We remember.”

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September 20, 2007

Corpse’s Point of View

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