Jan Palach


Brotherhood

It is 1969

A man set himself on fire today
To protest the war

My cigarette sympathizes with him,
its ashes like burnt out snowflakes

Falling
Dissolving
in a puddle of rainwater
Going home




Poetry by Jack R. Schade
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Written on 2010-03-30 at 00:08

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