SOUL
AND YET I DO THINK I DO HAVE A SOUL
Dirty-obscurity of massive limestone caves
millions of square feet of abandoned underground space
4 +6 yr. olds found there Thursday taken away from Brittany 23
Living in a wooden shipping crate Kansas City USA
Small hands eat from a dirty dry cup of ramen noodles
Police ask: Why aren’t you wearing shoes? Because we
don’t have any While worlds away Germans smile at
migrant children Paradise Regained
One dead little boy face down by the sea 2 or 3 Front page
of national newspaper: Some images demand to be seen
precisely because they show us the world as it is +in exposing
its cruelties our conscience may be stirred
Yet the necessity of this indignity against Alan Kurdi seems entirely
naive Alan needed to be wrapped with ceremony+civility How about
some respect for the toddler whose mother+brother also lost at sea
search for him daily While the father who paid $5,680 for passage on
a dinghy is busy fighting ISIS in their hometown of Kobani
And on railway tracks all over Europe migrants refuse the bread+water of
police who lure them to giant camps Same tracks that carried other trains
stuffed with families told to pack with haste: Take 1 suitcase & you will be
given a warm shower when you arrive
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In honour of the militant migrants refusing to
get off of the trains giving NEVER AGAIN
new meaning
Fall 2015
