Author Anthony Signorelli reads "Pretend You Live in a Room" by poet William Stafford.
Poem from “Rooster Crows at Light from the Bombing: Echoes from the Gulf War,” published by Inroads Press, November 1992.
Author Anthony Signorelli reads "Pretend You Live in a Room" by poet William Stafford.
Poem from “Rooster Crows at Light from the Bombing: Echoes from the Gulf War,” published by Inroads Press, November 1992.
ANTHONY SIGNORELLI: Play like you had a war. Hardly anyone got killed except thousands of the enemy. And many go around starving, holding their hands out in pictures, begging.
Their houses, even the concrete and iron, they've disappeared. These people now live camped in the open. Overhead stars keep telling their old, old story.
You have this world. You wander the Earth. You can't live in a room.
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