Thursday, June 29, 2017

The Account


Ninety unaccounted for In CNN’s 
latest pile of human waste
excreted by a liberating war.
  
Is it not spurious – the number
even in this digital age where everything
measured, conflated –
individual suffering, lost mothers,
children, separated heads and hearts
homogenised, weighed?

“Hmm, yes, looks like 90,”
the CNN man says to his crew.
“Get some footage; no details;
no legs or feet.  Definitely not.
Don’t want to upset Nike:

they sponsor this slot.”

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