Laura Winkelspecht
Nobody Dies Because They Don’t
—For the education of Raul Labrador
Nobody dies because they don’t have access to healthcare.
Nobody dies because they don’t get enough to eat.
Nobody dies because they don’t have a warm place to sleep.
Nobody dies because they don’t have the will to live.
Nobody dies because they don’t start wars they fight in.
Nobody dies because they don’t know enough to be scared.
Nobody dies because they don’t look both ways.
Nobody dies because they don’t make good decisions.
Nobody dies because they don’t stay silent during injustice.
Nobody lives in this world.
Laura Winkelspecht‘s work has appeared in Clementine Poetry Journal, NEAT, and One Sentence Poems, among others. She is a poet and writer from Wisconsin who writes with the hope of finding some lightning among the lightning bugs. Follow her on Twitter @lwinkelspecht.
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