Fireworks, yellow and orange.
TV static dancing across the screen. Every sign and chant lost,
a relic of radio waves.
Fireworks, yellow and orange.
A shooting star of striped cloth. Oak podiums and gray garments: domestic-made masks of freedom
Fireworks, yellow and orange.
A city of houses torn apart.
A smoke screen floating into the living room; and a mute button to stop the noise.
Fireworks, red, white and blue.
The camouflage of patriotism and anonymity. Another war, another fatality,
another sidebar on the morning news.
Art by Matthew Bian '23
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