January in Baghdad

If elections don’t go well
Some whisper what’s in store
Is nothing short of
Iraqi civil war.

But with violent unrest
Now in waters uncharted
It seems like that conflict’s
Already been started.

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Tony Peyser provides poems and weekly cartoons for The Santa Monica Mirror. He was also a daily cartoonist for the L.A. Times from 1994 to 1997. You can contact Tony via email at tonypeyser@yahoo.com.

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