City of Love

we wish to learn
so narrowly, from
cable news, as if

bodies were
weapons and we
were less dull

soft edges removed
from their purpose

like ulcers of the
places we can’t
name

a world without
love can only
breathe fire.

© Ben Ditmars 2015

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