Getting Out

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Sick to death

of blood and rubble

in Alepo,

my love is a refugee

in a junker boat

kissed by Fate

and beached in Turkey,

where the kids

of geopolitics

punch and push

each other

over whose turn it is to lose

and recieve one more package

of damaged human goods.

Greg Kennedy, SJ works as a spiritual director at the Ignatius Jesuit Centre in Guelph, Ontario. He is author of Reupholstered Psalms volumes I, II, and III; and Amazing Friendships between Animals and Saints (Novalis Press).

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