Ripped Apart

This is a perilous season.
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In color or black-and-white,
they are still dead.

Why count bodies in peace time?
Something about parts and whole.

I agree. This is more than just
an inconvenient fact:

keeping your feet away
from blood-soaked pavements.

Today, I ask, while watching TV-
Were the bodies covered by newspapers?