Chemicals

The chemicals

They fill 

Blackening lungs

 

Cameras out

They capture

loud shots

 

Man down

Gas thrown 

Child gone

 

And while

people fall

we're censored

 

 

 

Posted in response to the challenge America?.

Adalia Kruk

VT

15 years old

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