I’m writing this to inform youmy client has intent to suefor whiplash, which she got that day.That’s how fast she looked away from the sight of your sad plight. Look!What’s that?Look over there!She thought she saw a millionairemattering much more than youwho swung so swiftly into view,She turned to see, as I explained,And that is [...]
Tag: refugees
The price of a life
What value one life?What matter whose life? They know the price of a life in Bani Walid.In the squalid, fetid torture campsWhere evil stamps its mark in skin.They know the price isEverything. Every thing a mother can beg or borrow or barter or sell;Everything they own as well;Every shred of dignity;Every hope;Humanity. Everything to save [...]
Like flies to wanton boys
How can so few men, just one or two men, start a war that the law, the hopes, the prayers, the letters penned of mothers, of brothers, of millions, can’t end?
Migrants
Do we not value human life?
Claude’s hoard
Down on the farm, there are two kinds of mouse. One is the smart sort that lives in a house; The other, though rougher, tougher and poor Lives only and always outside the front door. The field mice can play out all day in the hay. ‘Til one day a cat comes to chase them [...]
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