“Shock and awe.” Read all about it. Barrel riders secure the Iraqi oil
for themselves in record time.
~ Terry Tempest Williams
CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR
I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death.
I hear him leading his horse out of the stall; I hear the clatter
on the barn floor.
He is in haste; he has business in Cuba, business in the Balkans,
many calls to make this morning.
But I will not hold the bridle while he cinches the girth.
And he may mount by himself: I will not give him a leg up.
Though he flick my shoulders with his whip, I will not tell
him which the way the fox ran.
With his hoof on my breast, I will not tell him where the black
boy hides in the swamp.
I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death; I am not on
his pay-roll…
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
Uni-verse
