A little girl
bawls
next to a new cycle
painfully unaware
she's just another
spin
in the news cycle
to some
to the world at large she
has no name but
a title
"girl in the rain"
"migrant caravan member"
"victim"
to the power that
be
she's just a number
a tool for
fuelling hate and
division
a lever
to activate
military expenditure and
deployment
as the wanna-be
emperor struggles to
delay
his denouement
Having made their own
arduous trek to
the edge of
the perceived promised
land
the weary families beset by
bandits
and smugglers and the like
squint into the sun-sliced
clouds
perhaps hoping for
manna
to get them to
manana
but all the skies have
to offer are
raindrops and
lice
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