Leon Sharpe Commended for Independent Publisher Book Awards (Poetry) 2006.

• I. The Twin Towers; The Twin Towers; * Nightmares; * The Capacious Tent; * It's Hard; * The President Delivers His Second Inaugural Address, January 20, 2005; * The Children of the World Address the President; * The President Does Not Respond; * Elegy for American Soldiers Killed in Iraq; * Eight Days in Falluja; * Proof of Torture; * Proud to Be American; * Iraqi Prayer; * Tsunami; * I Saw This; II. The War Crimes Trial of George W. Bush; Who's Winning?; * The President Recognizes Three Public Servants; * The Indictment of Saddam Hussein; * The War Crimes Trial of George W. Bush; * Support Our Troops; III. Never Again; His Heart Was Heavy; * Heartbreak House; * The Condemned Protests the Bright and Shining Future; * War; * The General; * The Unnecessary War; * The Mobilization Orders; * Lord Acton Forgets; * On Evil; * Never Again. Never Again. Never Again; * Two Conversations; * Thou Shalt Not Kill; IV. The New Traffic Rules; All the Pleasures; * On the Fate of Poems; * On Death; * The Self; * Poetry; * The Right Word; * Go to the Dogs; * The Life of a Snowflake; * Survival Manual; * Weather Report to Walt Whitman; * The New Traffic Rules; V. Earlier Drafts; Earlier Drafts; * Intelligent Design; * Song of Those Who Couldn't Decide; * Georgie Porgie; * Ring Around a Rosey; * Too Late to Reconsider; * Posing for Others to See; * God Looked Down; * What If We Had Thought Otherwise?; * If Leaders Had Been Wiser: An Exercise in Virtual History; VI. The Wrong House; The Eyeball; * Piss on It; * The Whoosh of a Perfect Shot; * The Wrong House; * The Helpless Giant; VII. Casualties of War: Stories; The Glorious Life of Lieutenant Case; * Moses' Nail Clipping; * Casualties of War; * References; * Postscript.

"In these daring protest poems, Mike Sharpe wields the most accurate of weapons, humor. Using a direct and down to earth language the poet gets us to feel what he feels, an anger accompanied by a compassionate sense of hope. It seems that each line is composed of a gripping humanity of love and laughter. Thou Shalt Not Kill Unless Otherwise Instructed is a great book of poems for our time." - Ernesto Quinonez, author of Bodega Dreams "Bite sized truths, Some sad, some angry. Some gently ironic, some fiercely so. A people's poet praying for an end to 9/11 by making 9/11 unforgettable." - Governor Mario M. Cuomo"