Charlies.
This is more about confusion than connection.
Charlie Chaplin, Victor Charlie, Charlie Hebdo, Charlie Kirk. Polemics. Polarization. Politicalization. Perpetration. Black and White All or Nothing Win or Lose Zero Sum. Anger spent. Fear weaponized. Empathy relegated. Humanity downed. Kill, the messenger.
Jesus Christ. POW!
Nothing like a laser drilled shot.
Reading your poem after a 10 hour day here at my little bar having a 1664 “00” on the Butte listening par chance to BB King winding his bluesy riffs through the French voices of Solidarity and laughter.
Two BBs in the same moment in this small space. Odds are?
All men in here of course.
French with a Muslim barkeep.
em in Paris