Huggy Bear (Alex Lofton III) was in the Navy as a Hospital Corpsman and went to combat with the 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines in the Gulf War. He wrote this poem in December 2003 and performed it on December 6, 2019, in New York City, at an event entitled, Confronting the War on the Poor, convened by the Kairos Center for Religions, Rights and Social Justice. He lives and organizes in Mobile, Alabama and is with the Alabama Poor People’s Campaign.