The Note Read

 

The note read...

300 ducks die in a

Tar Sands settling pond,

How many birds die

Flying into windows

And city high rises?

I suppose we insulate

Ourselves from the life

And death thing that

Is only a breath away,

Focus on a dot that

That generates the

Warm and fuzzy,

Like the widow’s

Impact statement

At the Guantánamo

Bay Trials,

Who will read

The impact statement

For the thousand we

Killed, blasted out

Of their beds before

We put a soldier

On the ground?

 

Stephen Nesbitt ©

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