Summary Execution

This is not post-war

these times of claim and allegation

of selectivity and double-speak

of world-is-flat

and humans flatter theories

and theorists

these are times of self-righteousness

these are war-times

without explosives

suicide-bombers or assassinations;

these times came before another time

of a nation under siege

a time thirty years long

of everyday anxiety,

but this was a moment

a representative capture

of a summary execution

the world will not recognize,

the execution of kindness

unthinkable of a war criminal

the execution of the Manual of Hope

an introduction to the Book of Tomorrow,

the quintessential api venuwen api freeze.

It’s written not in act nor reception

but in the face of the saved.

Indelible.   

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