Tumbleweed buried a town in the east
And we laughed uproariously at the sight
Imagining a match thrown
And the ensuing conflagration
Elsewhere a million acres
Had been burning for weeks
And in a city in the desert
A huge explosion hurled
Shrapnel killing a boy
Which seemed paltry compared
To whole countries on fire
Elsewhere for the time being
Gathering on the outskirts
The sirens' keening not so remote
We can't smell the smoke
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