Kandy Hearts and War Crimes
by Dan McLeod
Let’s talk about sex, Iraqi
let’s talk about U.N. me
’91 and infidelity
‘93 to infinity
no carpet for Aladdin when Uncle rolled in
not even a body bag
just a swift execution against a wall
in some bombed-out urban sprawl
Jasmine
gutted and fucked, under a drone-strike sun
the Sultan?
Oman, no time for that
those tales should be told in Den Haag
so while the daisies cut
and scuds scuttled
I went AWOL
jumped fences to see
Afghans a-poppin’ and fields a-smokin’
getting sucked deep into the Genie’s lamp
with opium-stroked glands
About the Author
Dan McLeod lives in Melbourne, Australia. His short story Plunging Silver was published in the 2017 Newcastle Short Story Anthology and his poetry has been published internationally, via Button Eye Review. He has contributed articles and reviews for several Australian music websites; and cites Pedro Juan Gutierrez, Geovani Martins and Karl Hyde as influences.