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| ISIL beheads civilians in the city of Al-Raqqa. --Syria Newsdesk |
The corpse in the street
Is headless
Flies do their business
Sow their seeds
Nearby a man sells
Tea and cigarettes
There is no place
For irony
John Guzlowski’s writing has appeared in The Ontario Review, Atlanta Review, and Exquisite Corpse. His poems about his parents’ experiences in Nazi concentration camps appear in his book Lightning and Ashes.