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The Other News

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The Other News

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Yet there were

Earthquakes

In Afghanistan

Thousands died

First aid

And reconstruction

In rapid action

So wide to bear

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We must put this in our heads

Because

The news is dire

Elsewhere

Like 9/11

And what happened anywhere

Save in New York

Pennsylvania

And Washington, D.C.

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But this is dire

Sisters

And this requires response

Brothers

From the healthy

Those with jobs

So much material

And money

Those who can volunteer

Exigent skills

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MSF is there

Unless politics gets in the way

Also the Red Crescent

And all the groups that monitor

And respond

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Then in time

We have to contemplate

How to keep things

Such as quakes like this

Tsunamis and eruptions

Elsewhere

From happening

Though we’re better at

The monitoring

At least

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And prevention

Might affect

A war as well

From happening

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And what else

Is happening

Out there

Let’s find out

Please

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C L Couch

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Photo by Sohaib Ghyasi on Unsplash

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In Kabul

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In Kabul

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Nine hundred twenty dead

Early counting

Now over a thousand

In Kabul

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The Taliban has asked

With urgency

For aid

The people in the city

Are receiving help

From local sources

People, groups

And from outside Afghanistan

Organizations

Other nations

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So many dead

The faithful will mourn

Accept

The will of God

While they mourn

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C L Couch

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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A powerful earthquake struck a rural, mountainous region of eastern Afghanistan early Wednesday, killing at least 920 people and injuring 600 others in the deadliest temblor…Read More

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Kabul, Afghanistan

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Escape from Afghanistan

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Escape from Afghanistan

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I don’t know how it is

To crowd myself

Inside an airplane

I don’t like heights

I don’t like the

Closed-in feeling

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I don’t know how it is

To climb upon the side

And hope that

The massive vehicle

Will stop

To let me and mine in

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But this is life

This is escape

This is relief

And so they pack

And so they climb

Something starts moving;

It is the hope

Of leaving

Where we are

To anywhere but here,

Which we think

In the moment

In the crisis

Must be better

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I might surrender

All my fears

To try for something

That might

Take me through

The filtered sky

Of what has been

My home

Or simply

My assignment

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C L Couch

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My escape from Afghanistan on a US military plane: ‘It was total chaos’

https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2021/aug/19/my-escape-from-afghanistan-on-a-us-military-plane-it-was-total-chaos-video

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NO EXIT

Photo by Nathan McDine on Unsplash

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