TV shows indoor cycling, web wants to tell me

what new there is about Paris and Raqqa

where once Harun al-Rashid had his court.

Bombs are falling, I wonder about making coffee

but there's little milk to go with it, so perhaps

I just drink some water, mug or two down

my parched, swollen throat as explosions

lighten the skies and how many forcefully conscripted,

how many enslaved die with those in black masks tonight?

Its not that I don't care about Paris, but

what about Beirut or Baghdad or Yemen -

eight months of war and the allies of the "West"

have not made a single move against al-Qaeda or IS,

but of that we must be silent, because even after Paris

geopolitics and realpolitik reign supreme.

Don't hold back emotions, let them guide

your support to our rulers, those who have none,

that's what they want from us, in tricoleur

supporting more war while our leaders and our allies

spare no thought to bringing peace forth in place of war.

15.-19.11.2015