Poignant verse, well-penned and so very true!
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how can we build a wall high enough to keep “evil” out?
with children’s buckets of sand
stolen by the kindergarten bully,
a molded garrison
wet with their tears –
youth’s hording
mockeries
or
with sticks and stones
and mountains of bones
of broken bodies
decayed on the ground –
states’ colonizing
batteries
with bricks and mortar
mixed with the ashes
of cremated remains
from gas-filled
sorting-house
factories
it sounds simple
like child’s play –
steal from one
allow another to
horde
colonize
sort
and
construct
a wall built high
I think when he says, “keep ‘evil’ out”,
he really means,
fence
it
all
in
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