while Israel plays the cat’s fury
with the spit of rockets
and paws of tanks
Hamas is the chased mouse
running through the living rooms
of all the other mice
- - -
Ukraine and Russia continue to bleed
In body count for a few inches of dirt
- - -
and in my country a weapons expert
takes target practice on a chilly night
in Maine at a bar and bowling alley
this the headline news playing
at the Texas Roadhouse as I
in an animal frenzy fang
the meat off baby backs
bleeding in barbeque sauce
and it hits me
how many degrees of separation
would that make me?
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