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BOMBING began and did not terminate for 42 days and 42 nights relentless minute after minute / more than 110,000 times / we bombed Iraq we bombed Baghdad / we bombed Basra / we bombed military / installations we bombed the National Museum / we bombed schools we bombed air raid / shelters we bombed water we bombed / electricity we bombed hospitals we / bombed streets we bombed highways / we bombed everything that moved / we bombed everything that did not move we / bombed Baghdad / a city of 5.5 million human beings / we bombed radio towers we bombed / telephone poles we bombed mosques / we bombed runways we bombed tanks / we bombed trucks we bombed cars we bombed bridges / we bombed the darkness we bombed / the sunlight we bombed them and we / bombed them and we cluster bombed the citizens / of Iraq and we sulfur bombed the citizens of Iraq / and we napalm bombed the citizens of Iraq and we / complemented these bombings / these “sorties” with / Tomahawk cruise missiles which we shot / repeatedly by the thousands upon the thousands / into Iraq (...)  June Jordan: The Bombing of Iraq. in: Kissing God Goodbye, 1997