The World’s Kitchen
(https://wck.org/)

Makes food
For everyone
Who’s hungry
With good food
In
Extraordinary quantities

And then
They die
While at the front
“this happens in war”
Is part of
The first thing’s that said
About that

Well
Starvation happens
Too
Unless you’re on
The winning
Side
And even then

We mourn these
Providers
So often
Earthly saviors
And will they go
Away
Never to come
Again
Into the fray
Near the fray
Where they don’t
Have to be

But please return
The needful
And the comfortable
Plead
And request
Respectively

We are hungry
We’ll be good
They say
Respectively

So food that’s needed
And the others
Needing not
To be there
Respectively

Thank goodness
Nothing good happens
Without something
Bad
Rejoindering
And that’s not enough
Of course
A chestnut
Or a saw

Let us go there
Who like the launching
Of attacks
And cook for these
The refugees
The wounded
Who will need
Holding up
For feeding

Let us go there
Now
To make
And feed
Some life again
That we ordered
Or supported
Or
Are in favor
When campaigning
Sending
Eleven-dollar checks

Let us all go
There
In every continent
Except for now
The southern continent
Where
We do not war
For now

Let’s go
Instead
To every other place
Where hunger has been
Caused
And cook for these
And feed them
Then go back
To reconsider
Ordering
A war
Rather than food
Again

And sadly
Tragically
Some will
Though many of us
Will learn something new
Something old
About our neighbors
And will go back
To feed again


C L Couch


Who were the World Central Kitchen workers killed in Gaza?
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68711282

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