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(A poem taken from the radio news)

In aftermath, how many bodies
and those left alive, injured

Border protection monitors it all
main game, not to get on a boat
a politician says, fleeing atrocity

politicians flighting like bullies
saying this is terrible, tragedy
that word again, the living in critical
condition in makeshift tent hospitals

The distress comes days too late
to act, air searching for days
this does not make sense, no reason
in the light of being possible
not going down a lighted path
bureaucracy is said to be the problem

and highest cause of death is suicide
with young men, a problem under
estimated, a university professor
is interviewed and asked why on
radio, rates are rising, disaster

are they hitting the local market
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