Now Clap
desensitized
to bombings in the news
with a death toll
a number
representing people
but not the web of effected families
"Triple Bombing Kills 74 at Mosque" *
in me
the 74 reverberates
to families
to lovers
to children
to parents, to grandparents
someone won't show up to work tomorrow
someone won't read a bedtime story to their kids
someone will be sleeping alone tonight
that war
is a sanctioned death trap
and this news article
has been sanitized
for clean american eyes
blind to the blood on our hands
now clap
that red in your eye is not patriotism
* CNN.com - 4/7/06
April 7, 2006