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leah@mcn.org 

RE-RUN

The production's the same
and, yes
the directors.

Again--
the woman washing rags
in a bucket.

Again--
children rooting
through garbage.

Empty guts and rubbled cities.

Broken stones and crushed bodies
echo a scene fifty years past--
whips, blood and terror,
and no place to go.

Still
vultures fatten
on the flesh of pawns
in a chess game
played
on a field of corpses

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