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Toll-Taking

Death at UCLA, teacher

And then shooter, then

Spouse found, murdered

Before

Death-number increases

Of soldiers lost to flood

At Fort Hood in Texas

Migrants’ lives lost

Beyond counting, since

Too many die unknown

In Mediterranean waters

Or on western Asian

Battlefields

Nigerian school children

Lives erased, such is the

The plan of those who

Took them

And these are in the

Process of becoming old

Well-worn news, such is

Our way

Though beyond blame

Is the stress of bearing

Our world, a planet of

Dying

And of sorrow

Atlas shrugged, the novel

Claims?  Atlas should

Have wept

Charon demands gold

For passage, though the

Real currency is life