Gomes, Chani

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94KEEPING  ACCOUNT Chani GomesPoetry1.  The man without a coat to his name   has to hunt.  He becomes a savage beast,  Hunting for his next meal.  For every meal. 2.  The woman pushed to the ground  again by her loving husband.   Unable to get up   her fractured leg,   her shattered rib,  her broken heart,   Yet she stays, she cannot leave.  She has no choice   if she wants to survive. 3.  The boy who’s chased down   thrown onto his back  beaten.   They take turns. Make it a game.  Nose bloody, eyes swollen,  a princess sticker torn from his backpack,  stomped into the hard ground.  It wasn’t his choice.   None of this was his choice. 954.  The young girl,  A child of war.  Loses sleep,   she lost her dad.  She imagines the last sound he heard   as the bombs fell like rain on their camp.  She flinches. She cries.   Tears pool in her eyes,   she shakes the sound from her head,   but it soon is replaced with the image of his lifeless body,  forever haunting her memory. 5.  These accounts   are forever without end.

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