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The Iraqi soldiers are a clever bunch.
They build three-sided mounds just before lunch.
In them they place bouncy castle decoy tanks.
American bombs blow them up, gee thanks!
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Author notes
Just seen aerial shots of US missiles hitting Iraqi military vehicles and this short piece was born.
Written March 24th, 2003
A contest entry
- For All Christmas Time fun (first contest) ENTER ENTER ENTER by smileywinks.
300 points, ended December 24, 2003, 28 entries
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
What did you think
Comments
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sick to the ness
I like bouncy fake tanks.... don't blow them up
jk anyways this is good well put... 
Merry christmas to all and to all a good day. 
BOOM!
anyways great poem and you are really good.... keep it up later
~predatorsgirl~
kim
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this was good John, and as far as this being enterd, it's alright, war doesn't stop just cause of Christmas, it kinda goes with what is going on in the world today!
Smile dear! and may the world smile back at you, I'm going to read your writing now
xoxo Veronica -
Like the pictures you made!
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I like your style John. I await more of your poems.
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Boom. cardboard flies through the air. Cool.
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During world war two, on Winfrith Heath in Dorset they built a cardboard tank factory which was bombed, leaving the armaments factory where my mum worked in Bovington Camp alone.. see nothing is new..bet there are lots of kids dying for a bouncy catle..
Barb -
I liked how you pieced images into the poem, like ansi art, spacing the piece with them. Well done..
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Well put, What a world we live in today.
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Have you read these 'war' poems.......
SO WHAT IS GOING WRONG TODAY?
Those Entangled Moments of Hope and Hell
Terrorism Shatters Fragile Unity
A case of mistaken identity
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