Marr 1 Katie Marr Ms. Gardner English 10, Period 0 2 December 2014 Collateral Damage It is summer: the peasants toil vigorously in the fields, Carving the ground like an earthquake, harvesting every morsel it yields. Working from sunrise to sunset, bone-tired. Eagerly returning home at night, to devour all the food they’ve acquired. They are hungry. Fall brings torrents of rain, and into misery the world transforms; Their crops are washed away like blood from guilty hands, collateral damage in this storm. They are hungry. Winter months are severe, freezing the ground.
Marr Katie MarrMs. GardnerEnglish 10, Period 02 December
2014Comment by Omar Khan:
Collateral Damage
It is summer: the peasants toil vigorously in the fields,Carving
the ground like an earthquake, harvesting every morsel it
yields.Working from sunrise to sunset, bone-tired.Eagerly returning
home at night, to devour all the food theyve acquired.They are
hungry.Fall brings torrents of rain, and into misery the world
transforms;Their crops are washed away like blood from guilty
hands, collateral damage in this storm.They are hungry.Winter
months are severe, freezing the ground.They sit, dejected, as their
stomachs bellow for food, they hopelessly look around.They are
hungry.With spring arrives fresh optimism, and news of war.Comment
by Omar Khan: Their sons are sent to be slaughtered; the peasants
are worked harder, fed less, taxed more.Battle-weary soldiers, more
animal than men, march up to the farm.They demand food, one peasant
refuses; ruthlessly they shoot him to raise alarm.Comment by Omar
Khan: Comment by Katie Marr: Comment by Omar Khan: And they say, We
are hungry.Comment by Omar Khan: Comment by Katie Marr: Comment by
Katie Marr: Comment by Omar Khan: Comment by Omar Khan:
