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“America is killing itself”
Like Dunblane, the horrorLittle children trapped, shotWith their teachersA single man with all the hatred a heart can musterYou can’t buy a beer when you’re eighteen in TexasBut you can buy two gunsWalk into an elementaryAnd murder twenty-one ~ n.b. For the editorial that spawned the headline above, check out Le Monde, the Parisian daily →
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on tenderness
this lives somewhere within and between usexists not without, cannot survive aloneforms around us, surely not beyond usfear not the performance, fear not the actdoes time and place and circumstance persistto permit retrieval of such gentleness? ~ CLP 24/05/2022 →
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Morning Sickness
Light draining from summer skyLife draining from a marriageNothing matters anymoreChoking on tearsEveryone can hear themWindows opened to cool nightA domestic blister bursts inRemoves all dream of sleepShe’s beyond distraughtHis vocabulary in retreatIt’s twenty-to-twoShe’s twenty-nine, in painTrying to end it allBefore dawn throws it all up again ~ CLP 22/05/2022 →
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on Ukraine xxiv
children of Bilohorivkataught to shelter under deskswent to school as children doregistered as children musteach morning and for every classwere among those registered again todayin the rubble, broken glass and dust ~ n.b. Sixty people sheltering in a school in the neighbourhood of Luhansk were killed on 7th May. Today, 8th May is Freedom Day →
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