a tanned boy in brown trunks on the beach like a dead fish washed up on the shore a few people standing around stare at a boy dead from surfing hit the breakwater wall on the beach flat young face statue-still body bronzed well-muscled dead looked at by the blase scratching their heads most vacationers just walk on by shutting out the scene from their eyes shaking their heads takes the police an hour to arrive pick up the beach litter put the stiff in a truck expressionless faces the print of the boy in the sand russia put many corpses on the ground today so did ukraine lifeless bleached dolls litter the ground dressed in slacks and leather shoes hands tied behind their backs blood-prints in the shape of nameless bodies thrown in trenches some onlookers scratch their heads some shake them side to side all walk away 2.8 10/10 © Brian Peter Hodgkinson
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Apr