How does one measure incalculable loss?
1.5 trillion, 13 million, as though disembodied from their own reality.
There is an obscenity hidden as figures dance across our screens, enter our minds but then disappear in an avalanche of distractions and distortions.
It seems but an abstraction, no matter the doom and disaster prophesied for the many who will certainly feel the wrath of this abomination.
24,000 is today's calculus on the dizzying ascent of the stock market. Meanwhile, the human cost of legislation wrapped in cruelty, moving inexorably forward, does not fit neatly into the equation.
A loss of morality as acceptable collateral damage. All really nothing more than numbers on a page.
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