poem “barbed”, a haiku about how it is hard to show mercy when you cannot trust the world, By Chicago Poet Janet Kuypers

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barbed
Janet Kuypers
haiku 3/10/14

they talk of mercy
but they still keep broken glass,
barbed wire on roofs

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