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A Place for the Dying

 We were going to a place where everyone is dying 

They lay in their beds 

The rooms were small and dark 

They didn’t have much connection with the outside 

We were told they were infected with a serious disease 

Soon they would be skin and bones 


We went there a group of us 

To document the small town of the dying 

Knocking on various doors 

Expecting to be invited in 

Soon realising the dying don’t easily accept strangers 


We kept going trying not to let the weight of the reality set in 

Trying not to let the logic of our immaturity seep in 

We were doing something worthwhile or we were building our own profiles 

While all these people were starving 


I had to perform to camera, introduce the topic 

Explain why we didn’t get to see any of the residents 

Didn’t get to show the weak desperate bodies facing their eminent end 


What did I say? what would you say? 

Why does that matter? why did it matter? 


We left the town 

Atleast that’s what we thought we did 

Ofcourse it never left us 

It never would 

Not for generations still 

That legacy is not easily shaken 

It was meticulously woven 

Apparently in labs of first world countries 

Biological warfare using tax payers money 


We lived and loved until they came up with a cure and a new weapon within the same period 

They made us wear masks and take vaccines 

Hospital visits that ended in mortuary cabinets 

Why are we so morbid? who are you asking? me or yourself? 

Why are we so cruel? So careless so obsessed with profit? 

Who are you asking? The corporations or yourself?

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