RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: GLOBAL POLITICS
Killing Journalists
They kill journalists in Michoacán
Like they do in Moscow and Hong Kong
Like they do in police states
Like they do in places of corruption
Where criminal gangs and cartels
have more persuasion than government
and more authority than police
They kill journalists where officials
answer to criminals
and sicarios do not fear
They kill journalists in war zones
Where human bodies are commodities
Where poverty and drugs cheapen life
Where truth is just an afterthought
Where justice is a nightmare
and only peasants go to jail
They kill journalists in towns and cities
Where civilization has declined
And order has been lost
Where journalists are insecure
Where they can be killed with impunity
There is little hope for democracy
Little hope for human dignity
Little hope for society
Little hope for law-abiding citizens
Little hope for common folk
like you and me
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