Because your leaders move their fingers over the buttons of bombs as if they are piano keys. As if they could make a symphony of playing chords around your children’s necks. Because if the heart of the earth is in Arizona, the Grand Canyon is proof of how badly it is breaking. Because we want to pace your border towns and teach families the physics of walking through walls. Because we don’t understand why you believe hell is beneath you. Also—because we want to hear old men play Vivaldi in subway stations in Queens. Because we want to watch skateboarders in Berlin carve the streets into
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