when a child is sent to war
children are born
with war in their DNA
their little bones recycled
from recent burial grounds
reconstructed by an invisible god
trying to get it right
but whatever lessons there might be
do not stick to anything
especially to a child’s DNA
april two thousand twenty-four
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so sad
the older I get the less I’m unable to comprehend