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Church Going

(title from Philip Larkin)

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Going to church

A dangerous occupation

Are they like paper victims,

Fluttering

Into the air

Like bulletins

After the bodies fall?

Are they easy pickings

Guns kept in holsters

Where allowed

Or left at the back

It’s church, after all

We keep our eyes closed

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It happened in Georgia, Texas

Pennsylvania

(Tree of Life)

Now Nigeria

Over fifty died at mass

(defining now

the awful idiom)

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Did they die for faith

Or were they easy targets

For a coward?

A criminal?

A terrorist

A war?

Cowardice

To take on

A kneeling congregation of

Faith’s children

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Who knows

There might be justice afterward

Selah

Amen

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C L Couch

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Nigeria: town mourns more than 50 people shot dead in church during mass

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/06/nigeria-town-mourns-more-than-50-people-shot-dead-in-church-during-mass

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Photo by Tengyart on Unsplash

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And Now One Is Found

And Now One Is Found

 

The Nigerian schoolgirls

(hashtag)BringBackOurGirls

Remember

 

How would we

Understand two hundred

Seventy

 

How would such a number

Be taken without our

Noticing

 

In what kind of truck

And to what place all

Hidden

 

In our neighborhood-filled

Planet-parts, this is

Hard

 

From our earthen places

We cannot count

How

 

But in part we can’t believe

Not because it didn’t

Happen

 

Tragically, criminally,

Numerically—what transpired

Transpired

 

And with our questions and

New trepidations here is her

Body

 

Now we have her with

Child and husband on the fringes

Found

 

We can understand, now

Perhaps, a new story of

One

14

Lines

Lines

 

the headline is

Nigeria mosque targeted

in suicide bomb attack

 

the ones with bombs were

women, one woman

inside, one woman outside

to catch those fleeing

from the first

 

two Muslims targeting

their own, killing and

wounding many

 

like the group at the

Christian church in South

Carolina, studying the

Bible when one’s own

opened fire

 

and, like Bible study, the

faithful at the mosque

(outskirts of Maiduguri)

were worshiping in prayer

 

C L Couch

 

(source Al Jazeera on 16 March)

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