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Thursday, June 20, 2024

From the river to the other river (poem)


International Poet of Merit Award
Shakespeare Trophy of Excellence

From the river to the other river


A story about a dead dog leads off 

your A Block,

instead of leading with the 500,

600, 700 hundred dead bodies 

that were found buried underneath 

a hospital, many executed by a single bullet

to the back of their head,

women,

children,

old men,

hands tied behind their backs.


We have to ask.


How many?

How many more?

Is there a number that will satisfy you?


Just tell us. 


Do you know?


I’ve heard you call them cockroaches before.

Many times, actually.


I’ve heard you call them lesser people.

It made me sick.


The news is sh*t.

Its anchors are rotten.

And it’s becoming more obvious 

with every breath we take 

that they are not on OUR side

and probably have never really been

on our side.


So we are alone together.


Now what?


I hear you.


Do you hear me?


I think you do.


I hope so.


Hello.



https://idiocracy23.blogspot.com/2023/12/baby-baby-all-time-when-do-we-want.html

“A magisterial collection. A combination of Bukowski’s Last Night of the Earth and Orwell’s 1984.”



 

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