Monday, February 12, 2018

day THREE HUNDRED and EIGHTY NINE

faster than a war does

the soft tears of a
mother over the
casket of her only
son

an epidemic fills
up the cemeteries
faster than a war
does

but as long as it is
only the poor dying

the government will
be comfortable with
their blind eyes

all they can see is
the money saved

once it hits their
pampered sons
and daughters

then the outrage
will become a
crackdown

a crusade to clean
up these streets

way too late for
countless souls

--J.J. Campbell

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