Tuesday, August 23, 2022

safe

somehow the world seems a less safe place today 
maybe it's the barrage of news that assaults us every morning when we tune in to social media
the algorithm churning out more bad news to match the ones that we already receive 
Big people get stabbed, shot at, and die everyday 
Shizuko Abe, ( May God rest his soul)  Samantha Rushdie ( thanks goodness he seems to have survived) 
but so do the little people
a girl on a water slide 
a baby 
a man 
an old man
death has been busy 
and laws change mutate
seeming to reach out to embrace 
its arm on your should warns you it can yet strangulate 
repeal an outdated law that criminalises sex between men
and change the constitution to protect marriages 
to appease blood thirsty masses 
you may have seen but may never marry 
and gay children shall never be on our text list, 
cancel them by cancelling them

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