№ 626: Worthless Thousand Words

Photo of Drowned Migrants Captures Pathos of Those Who Risk It All (Paywall)

The bodies of Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez and his 23-month-old daughter, Valeria, were found in the Rio Grande on Monday. Credit Julia Le Duc/Associated Press

IZEENUTING, US (June 26)

Pictures of children

dead on the border

should be unlawful,

they make us feel awful.

Why can't they die

back in the jungle

or in the slum

where they come from?

If I had my wall

thirty feet tall

you'd never have to

see them at all.

[updated 6/27/2019, 1:30 am]
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Tip of the hat to N.I.S. for (sort of) suggesting this subject.