What an Iraq combat veteran turned poet feels when he reads the partial truth about the CIA
TOP SECRET //████████//
NOFORN
What are we to do after the white noise,
after the wallings, the rough takedowns
and deprivations of sleep, nudity, rectal
rehydration and rectally infused feedings,
the President’s daily briefings, learned
helplessness, the outsourced psychology
conducted in secret detention facilities,
black sites and gray sites redacted
in one country after another?
