on the assassination of Shinzo Abe, 8 July 2022

men in shirt-sleeves
their urgent entreaty
our iphones’
awful eloquence
the ruin of snowy fields

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Image: Pieter Breugel the Elder, Hunters in the Snow, 1565 c/- Wikimedia Commons.

Prime Minister of Australia, Anthony Albanese on the assassination of Shinzo Abe.

Sorry, no music this morning.