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... with my radio.
I do listen, pay attention
to unspooling claims, to spoiling
arguments, to numbers, numbers,
mounting numbers of the dead.
I take heed of current events,
note argument and conflict
as they ricochet around my kitchen.
Honestly, I only rarely take refuge
from the bombs, blood or platitudes.
Trying to decode the language
of war, I read between / behind
enemy lines in every / any accent.
But always it is black / white, as
prevaricating politicians dissemble.
I press buttons, search for strategies
towards peace. Craving resolutions
I try not to weep, but wring my hands
and seek the sanctuary, the cosy comfort,
of my growing echo-chamber.
After Kevin Gilday
Finola Scott is widely published. Info about her 3 pamphlets & lots of poems can be found at facebook group Finola Scott Poems