K Carlton Johnson

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Guernica

67 years ago, recalled in a painting
Picasso’s violated Spanish soul.

The out of air war
Death realized,
with mechanical efficiency.

Our world remakes opinions
worries about results.
so when we hear about that Monday in 1937
wondering why we have to travel
so far to see a painting, and
click our tongues, wondering if outrage
is still appropriate for slaughter.

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