(with trigger warnings for racial slur + carnage)

long gone
as are water
electricity
& anesthesia,
only Gaza

hospital left
–above
tunnels kike
hostages
kept nearby

warmed each
premie
(all incubators
kaput) in
aluminum foil

‘til foiled it ran
out so
now they are
stacked
on each other

our dear ones
outside
more likely not
to get
enough heat

oy sacrificed.

_{*proposal immodestly cribbed from Jonathan as sung by Taylor Swift}

Author Bio:

Poet, aphorist or sometimes meanderist; Gerard Sarnat is widely published internationally in print and online. He has been nominated for the pending Science Fiction Poetry Association Dwarf Star Award, won San Francisco Poetry’s Contest, the Poetry in the Arts First Place Award plus the Dorfman Prize; and has been nominated for handfuls of Pushcarts plus Best of the Net Awards. Gerry is a Harvard College and Medical School-trained physician who’s built and staffed clinics for the disenfranchised as well as a Stanford professor and healthcare CEO. Currently, he is devoting energy/resources to deal with climate justice and serves on Climate Action Now’s board.