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While I Was Writing
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On the news just now,
A hypersonic missile
Purportedly in China
China denies it
We want the same thing
China isn’t evil
Though sometimes
Sometimes we are evil
We all should know better
And we do
We do what we hate
Give it a name,
Security
Secure would be
Not to have these things
In Xanadu,
Kublai Khan decreed
An extraordinary place
And I hope everyone was fed
There
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Alhambra de Granada
Photo by Jorge Fernández Salas on Unsplash
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Hebei and Henan
(according to Xinhua news)
Nearly a hundred
Known to have lost
life here in conquests
of water, land, and
souls that are the
floods’ in China.
There are times
when Who is now
our nation’s friend?
has no new meaning.
Prayer and pledge
and action, anyway.
from all of us in
all the nations.
http://in.reuters.com/article/china-floods-idINKCN103078
the photo,
A woman cries as she holds a pig rescued from a flooded farm in Xiaogan, Hubei Province, China, July 22, 2016.
Reuters/Darley Shen
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