BOOT: SCULPTURE
The boot in this sculpture
is not large and soft
or cast in bronze
or on some overlarge hero
of a war memorial.
This work is conceptual in nature.
It is political in content.
It is a sign of those
who died in Iraq,
a war to secure our standard of living,
despite what the soundbites say.
There is a pair of boots
for each soldier killed to date.
They are lined up as if soldiers at roll call.
They stand at attention,
most drooping like dead flowers.
Just a regular boot.
One that you or I might wear.
Richard Smyth
Posted over on Poets Against the War
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