#824 - who knew?

 

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who knew?

parable of the golden bear and the fish that got away

(for studies in false equivalence)

 

who knew

the neighbour thunder

sky and on road

 

please tell me I don’t understand

someone comes into your house

and must imagine things

 

who knew

they would shoot him in the head at no range

nor with weapon, yet defending

 

who knew

they would rape their way over the map like this?

 

call someone Nazi then you can

 

corpse, let me say, is a kind of existence

and if we all could dance

 

who knew?

 

read the truth’s entrails

 

false flags and stage all tricks of war

 

like in another language where the few are let to speak

 

a fanfare here and flag of tatters

 

speak up

we can’t hear you yet

 

who knew all their tanks to mangle

 

Chechnya, Syria, Afghanistan

all this burying and not a coffin 

shift the soil by hand 

 

who knew?

see what the world sees!

 

hearts so dead inside

 

or is a silence better?

 

someone a cello

in the church come down

 

play till daylight comes