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Nightly News

Consider the camera, its gaze

as long as the cloudless night

focused yet false, distorted.

Hear the story of the air

the voices straining to breathe

the sound of sand sifting away.

Ask yourself the questions:

Who what when where

and why is the sky suddenly ash?

Why the laughter, why the dead

what the child said when asked

who and where and why?

Clarity, cliché—polished package

that wraps the unwrappable.

Here it is, your day.