They’re killing poets in Bahrain,
cutting out their tongues in Yemen.
Things like that are always happening.
It’s not the first time it’s happened,
won’t be the last. It seems a habit
in some places,
while here in the good old USA,
we are ignored, on occasion vilified —
or just as often, commodified.
Those dead remain poets after their deaths.
When we suffer what we suffer here,
can we say the same?
Dark Matter 
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