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Patient Wrath

May 30, 2020 By Samuel Miller McDonald Leave a Comment

Photo by Aziz Acharki on Unsplash
you think you’ve seen the most blessed forbearance
in the stoic and poised patience
given to the child by a good parent?
behold the people on whom  
the ugliest crimes formed 
from the vicious habit of 
an ugly empire are heaped
 
you think you’ve seen the most righteous wrath
in the good parent’s desperate
protection for their child harmed?
behold the people on whom
the ugliest crimes formed
from the vicious habit of
an ugly empire are heaped

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About Samuel Miller McDonald

Samuel Miller McDonald is a geography PhD candidate at University of Oxford studying the politics of energy transition. He is an editor at The Trouble and a writer. His work is here & tweets @sjmmcd.

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