Here’s News (and a Haibun)
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Here are three news leads from The Guardian:
The United Nations has for the first time signalled its “human rights obligation” over the deadly cholera outbreak in Haiti that has claimed the lives of at least 30,000 people.
‘It’s only working for the white kids’: American soccer’s diversity problem [headline]
Yesterday, a report came out that said more than 1,000 migrants and refugees have died just in the last week while crossing the Mediterranean.
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Everyone on all sides of things is falling down. UN peacekeeping. Soccer, the world’s sport. Migrants we don’t count who die. Doesn’t help my own precarious feelings about stability or sanity in the world. Doesn’t help the fragility in me or mine. On this side of apocalypse (only frightening for some), what might we save? In order to retain poetics, I’ve refrained from news of politics today. I doubt anymore the answer’s there.
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Black box of the plane
Black box of refugee’s boat
Black box of sea’s depths
clcouch123 
June 3, 2016 at 3:52 am
oh. this almost brought tears, Christopher. *sigh*
Especially this line: “Migrants we don’t count who die.”
It’s heartbreaking, most of all, it pains me that no one is somehow paying attention.
A lovely haibun with a painful yet real content.
June 3, 2016 at 4:14 am
I’m thankful you feel meaning here. Migrants are issues, it seems, more than real people. Each migrant with intense value, one by one. Thank you (too) for affirming the haibun. You and Annie taught it to me.
June 3, 2016 at 6:03 am
Only if we could make the whole world into a giant “black box”..
June 4, 2016 at 6:08 pm
It can feel that way, can’t it?