Then, of course, there is Facebook Asking, are you safe in the cyclone? Have you kept your distance, have you been spared, The whimsical vagaries of nature, are you home? How are they, those who were walking? Those whose homes have been washed away? The wind has no sense of direction, it blew In a flower from three houses down. But where does the blood and water flow? These are things we only debate and discuss Talking in hushed voices, watching, wide-eyed Videos forwarded in clusters. You see, we are safe. In our homes.
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