Single-File

A poem for the 153 Iranian school girls

The dug graves

all lined up in neat rows

for the children to be placed

in single-file lines,

like they were learning at school

just the other day

until the bombs.

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Until the bombs

I did not know of them.

I did not know.

No child should be remembered

for how they were slaughtered

by stone-hearted men.