On the downstairs office telly

I just heard

two fat-faced U.S. politicians

talking of Iraq
& one man claimed
the way to kill insurgencies was 'clear a hole,'

& then he said
'a hole

is being cleared – why, I
have spent the night myself, & that should show

how big a hole we've cleared' –
& I just bet
that when this U.S. politician spent the night

the fact that he was not a bloodied Shiite child

or headless Sunni corpse by morning only
proved him right.