Cut & Slice

Coming to grips with a world gone mad.

Cut & Slice

You cut me,

and I bleed

red and white and blue

bleu et blanc et rouge

Schwarz und Rot und Gold

zwart en geel en rood.

You cut me

with a thousand not-so-tiny-cuts

not yet healed

before slicing me again.

You cut me,

and I bleed;

light grows dim and dark,

how long before the end?

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Written

to cope with

the Belgian attacks on 22 March

the death of Officer Allen Jacobs

to remember

September 11

January 7

November 13

December 31