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This is the beginning
of the end of humanity
At 11:30pm I logged
onto my Instagram feed
First clip
from Motaz Azaiza
They removed
but he replaced it
Over one million likes
"Fully engulfed tents"
means people burn alive
I didn't cheat this time
I turned on the audio
Someone yelling
A man on the ground
kept raising his hand
into the air
Once, twice, again
slower each time
No one to save him
Innocence is not enough
Just like all the teachers
and their students in
over 500 bombed schools
The end of all humanity
begins with the end
of humanity
Trish is out of L. A. Ca. where she lives with her Significant Other and some crazy cat or two. She debates and provides some kind of opposite viewpoint, to that of the cantankerous editor's, in the semi- annual print journal The American Dissident. Online poetry can be found at Rat's Ass Review, The New Verse News, and elsewhere. For a different perspective on current topics, please visit Bitch n Complain on Substack.