The Journal of Undiscovered Poets

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But alone they surely will murder us all, one by two, by twenty, by fifty, or a hundred at a time, cut to pieces in our beds, shot down in the street, blown to heaven by drones while we dance at weddings, while we writhe in pain in hospitals slammed by rockets and mortar shells. Don’t let them murder us all one by one, dear friends! Fact is, alone they will surely continue to murder us, all of us, one by one, by the dozens, two by two, by the millions, just like they are doing right now, every day, all over the world. Surely they will not stop slaughtering us ‘til we’re all gone, children, Every last one of us, dear ones, without a doubt. Unless we stand and move together, sisters, brothers, by the tens of thousands, by the millions, everyone Hurling our blood-red song of love directly into their empty hearts as they turn and flee! Fact is, as of today 2.6 million individual persons have been killed by US troops in Afghanistan, Iraq, & Pakistan. No one is counting the people killed by our drones & jets in Yemen, Libya, and Tunisia, or what once was Syria. Don’t let them murder those of us who are left, dear friends! Let us stand together, sing and move together until they turn and flee or throw down their guns and rush to join us in singing our cry of peace and love!

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