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Ocean of Forgotten Names
Rha Hira Arayal
diary pages
folded like boats.
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empty lungs;
the corpses float.
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water seeps through
a waterproof coat.
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in a glass bottle,
a single note.
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"i can't breathe"
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they never could.
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the death was slow
air like poison
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why were they chosen
to die by corrosion-
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the deterioration of
our equality notions?
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why was it them
that died out in the open?
alone and deserted,
scarred and broken?
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why did God give
them life if
the world is frozen?
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