<html aria-label="message body"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space; font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Names</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">and</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Streets </span><br><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">1.</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Almost every street </span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">in my neighborhood is named </span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">for a country or a city and in one case</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">a vast river region</span><br><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">I live near the corner of Lisbon and Italy </span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">and often rehab walk on Madrid</span><br><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Near the park is Moscow which intersects</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> with Geneva</span><br><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Paris is just a few blocks away and Amazon</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">is at the end of my block</span><br><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">I like to walk near standing trees named</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Oak and Eucalyptus </span><br><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">I turn often to look at the houses </span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">on the hills south of here</span><br><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">they all shed the morning light towards </span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">our kitchen</span><br><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">2.</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The named streets of Gaza all lead to death</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">as do now the streets of Tehran and Beirut</span><br><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">they are all losing the names of lives as I write this </span><br><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">I know the streets of Ukraine shudder as the missiles</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">and drones seek innocent streets and living spaces</span><br><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Generational streets also exist in refugee camps </span><br><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">3.</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">And there are streets in this country so filled with ICE that </span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">it is almost impossible for Justice to pass through them</span><br><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">All these streets of rubble and ruin joined with streets of sorrow</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">and grief</span><br><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">4.</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Is it too late to draw a map of murdered names and streets</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">to one day bring us home together in this rapidly fading light</span><br><br><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Beau Beausoleil</span></div></body></html>