The News In Poetry Day 35: A Funeral March

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-22178765

http://m.guardian.co.uk/world/middle-east-live/2013/apr/17/syria-crisis-aleppo-truce-live

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/16/17776320-adorable-boy-8-mourned-after-boston-marathon-blasts?lite

An earthquake hit Iran
The army were drafted in
To help the injured
Bury their dead.

The guns in Syria
Stopped for long enough
That rotting corpses
Could be cleared away.

Mourners in Boston
Remembered a small boy
Who wanted the world
To stop hurting people.

Remember them today.

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