An Israeli soldier near a mobile artillery unit as it fires into Lebanon, July 25, 2006.
(Gil Cohen Magen/Reuters)

Ghadir Shaito, 15, lies in a hospital bed at the Rafik Hariri hospital in Beirut, Lebanon Tuesday, July 25, 2006. The injured said three members of the Shaito family were killed and nine injured outside their village near Bent Jbail in southern Lebanon, when their convoy was struck by an Israeli airstrike after they ventured from their houses after running out of food and water. The family claimed that a U.N. convoy stopped to take their photographs but did not provide assistance and they were finally taken to Beirut by the Lebanese Red Cross.
(AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Minerva Jones
by Edgar Lee Masters

I am Minerva, the village poetess,
Hooted at, jeered at by the Yahoos of the street
For my heavy body, cock-eye, and rolling walk,
And all the more when "Butch" Weldy
Captured me after a brutal hunt.
He left me to my fate with Doctor Meyers;
And I sank into death, growing numb from the feet up,
Like one stepping deeper and deeper into a stream of ice.
Will some one go to the village newspaper,
And gather into a book the verses I wrote?--
I thirsted so for love!
I hungered so for life!
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