Somewhere Children Do Not Play at War | Sojourners

Somewhere Children Do Not Play at War

A poem.

You can’t blame me for flinching
back against the wall
when a small boy points his
pistol at me and yells “Pow! Pow! Pow!”

I am lying back there somewhere
feeling the sidewalk as if I’d never touched
sunshine, pumping out my urgent
puddle

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