anguish is automatic as breath
here where so much death
is both needless
and financially inevitable
and tonight we drove past someone
sleeping on a bench behind the bank
folded in a filthy American flag
we didn’t stop to invite her to a meal
or sleep in our house
the imagined danger was more real
than her unsheltered shivering there
some lessons obviously out of step
should be cut from curriculums
like when we teach our children
what as children we were taught
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