yellow leaves in trees
soon to fall and sleep - their truths
are told in colors.
An Abstract
Occupation
However much
it may seem like
some distant thing
impossibly unreal,
it somehow exists
anyway
as if to spite us,
to remind us it's
possible to live
while others are
dying, breathe while
children are gasping-
that it's possible
to do nothing
while others
lose small things,
most things...often
everything.
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701 days until a new President enters the White House. 701+X days until Iraq is no longer an occupied country.