We are free
to find out how our soldiers
have trained others to kill
people just like us
free to not buy fish sticks
made of ground up
dragger-caught juveniles
free also to bring our own children
into a world we know is in danger.
I sat down to write in deep sadness
still reeling from the knowledge
that all my efforts
have not been enough
to prevent evil and destruction.
I couldn't have not tried
- just had to do something -
and the time will come when I will want to
once again
but just now
I would simply like to cry.
-Jan Slakov, Nova Scotia, 1998
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