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The child is crushed beneath the cab

Fritz Hamilton

    The child is crushed beneath the cab. The mother screams & begs the gathering crowd to do something. The cabby is hysterical, & a fat woman tries to hold him. This is Pasadena, outside my building. I phone 911. They already know. A cop pulls up. The fire engine approaches with siren howling.
    In Kandahar, a child plays in the street. He steps on an IED. His wailing mother hurries from their home, as the child’s pieces rain from the Afghan sky. American soldiers arrive in an armored car. What can they do? Nothing.
    A child in Baghdad is feverish & can barely breathe. His parents are afraid to take him from the house. They are Sunni, their neighbors are Shiite. The mother holds her child afraid he might die. An American plane roars overhead.
    A girl in Budapest with a strange blood disease lies paralyzed in her mother’s bed. She feels nothing. Nobody can know her thoughts. Nobody knows if she has thoughts. Will she die today? Will she survive for years? A bird sings sadly from her roof, uniting us all. A cold rain falls.

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