(x = space)

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Waiting for the War to End

(words I heard offered rhetorically in a sermon)

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Who goes today?

Who’s gotten

Sick?

Will there be meals?

Will there be

Water

To rely on?

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How much less?

How many

Lost?

Only questions

In the catechetic style

Absent

Of answers

What is said

Depending, not depending

On a side

A leadership

Misleading

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How long?

The first day when

Everything blew apart

Making

Normalcy

Seem paradisal

Now

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When is the end,

The end we

Have,

Because we’re still

Here?

For those who have electric,

Normalcy is

Elsewhere

Where we can watch it

Hear it

Happening

Without explosions

News

Of explosions

Near

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We’d be envious

Were we not preoccupied with

Terror

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C L Couch

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