Each evening, the toll revealed.
'bring out your broadcast dead'
a TV graphic headstone
where absentees in roll are read.
They have no names, these numbers,
no identity nor commonplace
no personality or attribute
these disconnects without a face.
But flesh and blood is presented here
slender lines across the page
veins that no longer carry blood
and only memories engage.
These are fathers, mothers, sons
daughters, comrades, friends.
These are not ink upon a screen
but connections
that our love
transcends.
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