I don’t either. Have relatives in the region. Like you, I can’t see the horror unfold.
People say the darnest things. Just because it Medium we expect a certain level of awareness. Intellect. Humaneness. We shouldn’t. It’s turned into Twitter!
You’re a good thinking person. And you’ll stay that way.
The crap I get from some readers is appalling. Because I’m a brown woman. My name sounds Muslim.
I’m a poet who can’t write pretty verses in the face of genocide and extreme injustice.