In The News

There's a coup in Mali,
Unrest there's endemic,
From French conquest in eighteen ninety-eight,
The flame put to the wick,

In Iraq hundreds of protestors killed,
Demanding social change,
A government built along ethnic lines,
The list of complaints too long to arrange,

Alexei Navalny has been poisoned,
For speaking 'gainst the state,
He now joins a long line of Putin rivals,
Who suffered the same fate.

That is not all,
I'd need a lot more days,
To outline the hard times around the world,
For the people wanting a better way.

The Resilience of the Suicide Bombing Trade

There's so much I don't get,
About so many things.
Let's try suicide bombers in Iraq,
'Cause of recent killings.

The thought is that these are Sunni Muslims,
Mad at the Shia gov,
For keeping them out of pol'tical posts,
Security forces showing no love,

So over five bombs killed more than eighty,
One at a funeral.
This just in the last two days alone,
Suicide bombers all.

Not to be terse, 
But, how can someone see,
How so many innocent people die,
And think, "suicide bombing is for me."?