Bly told the press, ”We count up the small-boned bodies like quails on a gun-shoot".
Robert Bly is an American poet and activist that has been part of the Mythopoetic Men's Movement for a long time. The sentence provided has been taken from "Counting Small-Boned Bodies", a poem of ten lines in which he criticizes the Vietnam War and refers to the deaths that the war has caused. Moreover, he wrote the poem after hearing on the radio the number of dead Vietnamese so as to criticizethe daily body count.
