He never thought of himself
as a cancer or even a lesion
but he needed a job
Now here he is
in the belly of the beast
doing the bidding of
those evil enough to manufacture
the butterfly bomb*
cruel enough
to name it such
fucking cold enough
to build a munition
inviting enough
to entice a child’s
intimate touch
According to The Guardian, of the 260 million cluster bomblets that rained down on Laos between 1964 and 1973, particularly on Xieng Khouang province, 80 million failed to explode.The Global Post reports that as of 2009 about 7,000 people have been injured or killed by explosives left from the Vietnam War era in the Vietnamese Quang Tri Province alone.