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| Cartoon by Drew Sheneman, September 21, 2017. |
If millions lose their health
care, will anyone hear
in the forest
of the innocents?
Gravity will run upward
like a cyclone
sweeping all before it,
the apple will go skyborne
from the grass
into the golden leaves,
thousands will stand
outside the orbit
of hospitals, clinics, doctors,
the chemistry of addiction
will grow inward—
to arteries and minds
and communities of death
that whiten the wealthy
and whirl into space
all dignity and justice and love.
David Radavich's recent poetry collections are America Bound: An Epic for Our Time (2007), Middle-East Mezze (2011), and The Countries We Live In (2014). His plays have been performed across the U.S., including six Off-Off-Broadway, and in Europe. Much of his work deals with social justice issues.