Reading List

Here is the list of University of Washington Libraries materials highlighted in the 'We Are Not Humanity' Focus On... exhibit, in January & February, 2010.

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

John Vanderslice - The Minaret

It’s the end of spring and light hangs on
Dripping over geraniums and humming bird wings

In the blaze of summer we’ll tap our weapons out to the cadence of a melody they sang at Normandy
It won’t be the same again and we’ll just walk away it’s the end
We crossed on the ridge and cut their women down
I climbed up on the minaret and occupied the town
They scattered in the woods to gather up their strength
Dripping blood on the road and oh how the animals looked on
They all see how we’ve changed all the rules of the game
I can see both sides and it paralyzed me
An eye for an eye was a way to limit revenge
We’ve done away with all of that
Read how it all begins
It was written years before, same name, same war
I can see both sides and it paralyzed me inside

Hear the song.

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