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scrolling twitter

looking for a muse,

something that doesn’t

douse me with guilt

or shame

or dread

something hopeful.

something beautiful.

something new.

instead

crammed

inside

a tiny video screen

is a dilapidated

frame of a building

the bbc is calling a school.

young brown children

in headscarves

hungry for education

are taught

by a smiling blind

nine year old boy.

another conflict

in an arid

chunk of the map:

good guys and bad guys—

the houthis:

an islamist political and armed movement

that emerged from sa'dah in northern yemen

the other side:

saudi isreal america

the yemeni civil war may refer to several historical events

which have taken place in yemen:

alwaziri coup, february – march 1948

yemeni–adenese clan violence, 1956–60

north yemen civil war, 1962–70

aden emergency, 1963–67

north yemen-south yemen border conflict of 1972

yemenite war of 1972

ndf rebellion, 1978–82

yemenite war of 1979

south yemen civil war, january 13–25, 1986

yemeni civil war (1994)

al-qaeda insurgency in yemen, 1998–2014

houthi insurgency in yemen, 2004–15

south yemen insurgency, 2009–15

yemeni crisis (2011–present)

yemeni revolution, 2011–12

yemeni civil war (2014–present), ongoing

saudi arabian-led intervention in yemen, ongoing

lahij insurgency, march 27 – august 4, 2015

aden unrest (2015–present), ongoing

hadramaut insurgency, april 26, 2016 – present

world sense

can be disambiguated

by examining the context:

but how can we be expected to

know this much?

care this much?

this poem

does nothing.

neither will the one

for myanmar.