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Haiku to the President
Lori Tsang, Judy Cohn, and Rosalie Yelen | April 17, 2009
Editor: Melissa Tuckey
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Dear President Obama,
You ask for patience
we ask you "how much longer?"
Iraq is still burning.
Rosalie Yelen
Dear President Obama,
Shut down the global
casino. Time to foreclose
on this house of cards.
Lori Tsang
Dear President Obama,
Mr. President
leave Iraq Now while Light
remains in their eyes
Judy Cohn
Rosalie Yelen is a peace and environmental activist and a CODEPINK coordinator on Long Island working since 2002 to stop the war in Iraq and prevent future wars.
Lori Tsang is a Washington, DC-based writer whose poems have been published in Crab Orchard Review, Drumvoices, Amerasia Journal, and other publications.
Judy Cohn is an attorney/writer and activist living in Washington, DC. They are all contributors to Foreign Policy In Focus.
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Published by Foreign Policy In Focus (FPIF), a project of the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS, online at www.ips-dc.org). Copyright © 2009, Institute for Policy Studies.
Recommended citation:
Lori Tsang, Judy Cohn, and Rosalie Yelen, "Haiku to the President," (Washington, DC: Foreign Policy In Focus, April 17, 2009).
Web location:
http://fpif.org/fpiftxt/6052
Production Information:
Author(s): Lori Tsang, Judy Cohn, and Rosalie Yelen
Editor(s): Melissa Tuckey
Production: Jen Doak |
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