Self-awareness

Nobody knows.
We all forget our trespasses.
We forget the victims.
And marginalize them.
Call them names.

We toothpaste over the holes
in the walls behind our firing squads.

We drink to drown
everyday atrocities
as if an ocean
would wash away ownership.

copyright © 2022 Kenneth P. Gurney

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