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Story Rhinehart

Orange crosses in the field
Desert bones
arranged&catagorized
Flattened skeletons
laid out on table tops
How long shall we
turn our heritage into shame
How long shall we
let these numbers escalate
Temperatures rise
Fevers break
Poverty earthquakes
Genocide war&rape.
The stench of callousness
hovers above
A carpet of skulls
where a wooden Mother Mary prays
Amidst a cacophony of moans
Like a lonely dragon winding in the wake
People form a train&march
covering themselves with tarps towards
Deaths like a thousand marigolds
melting in the rain

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