issue 6
// poetry
“War is the incubator of progress“
by Cypher
a smart woman tells me. “Necessity is the mother of invention,”
Death’s debt can’t be paid with innovation.
I walk around with a livestream, the world’s genocide
in my palm. I force myself to stay –
to keep my eyes pinned to the rubble, to the young girl
stood in front of a destroyed school, smiling.
She must be about 5, and she knows
how to find joy or fake it
in the midst of the world’s end.
It was never progress for all, was it?
You get tech, and we get a growing count
of children with war for a mother, and mothers
with corpses for kids.
about the author // Cypher
| Cypher (she/her) is a self-taught brown and queer Tamizh diaspora poet living in Canada. Her writing is deeply musical, political, and introspective. Her work has been featured by the Dark Winter Literary Magazine, Arcana Poetry Press, FeelsZine and several other publications. |
Instagram: @cypherspace_101
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