The End of the Story

 

My Pittsburgh neighborhood of Aleppo

Is dying

The last reports are terrors

Military action lost strategically

To killing

Civilians who lived there only

Or came to help the ones already wounded

 

Final words are spoken through

Electrons, visiting upon the world

The revulsion of the void

Of life, which is all that is

Increasing here

 

Wait, my mistake, it’s Aleppo

In Syria

The first city

Still dying, still dead

Still a message to those of us

Who read and pray

And politic and must go on

 

The last Marx brother

In a raucous comedy turned horror story

 

Convicted, we establish

A new front for life

In places we might own for

A while longer

 

Otherwise, there might be nothing

All around

 

C L Couch

 

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