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Staring at a screen.Safe


Staring at a screen.
Safe as safe can be
A couple keystrokes here
will help make the world free.
He can't see their bodies fall.
He can't hear their panicked cries.
He can't know the pain they feel
as light leaves their once lit eyes.
From across the world he sits,
he won't know their desperate moans.
Safe here in the U.S.A:
One nation under drones.

 

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