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# Idiopathic
- URL: https://www.andyposner.org/idiopathic/
- Published: 2024-08-06T16:10:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-17T16:11:13.000Z
- Author: Andy Posner

[A child in Bend](https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/oregon-silver-rail-elementary-shooting-bend/?ref=andyposner.org) points to her neck  
and asks how the blood got there.

Students in New Delhi demand  
to know [where their names went](http://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2026-10-12/a-generation-of-angry-young-indians-takes-to-the-streets-to-challenge-modi?ref=andyposner.org).

Hillsides in Malibu look for choppers  
to spit seawater [on their wounds](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/malibu-wildfire-rages-triggering-evacuations-southern-california-rcna603911?ref=andyposner.org)

and my power is out, unlit trees look  
over their shoulders, strawberries

cover their grief in veils of mold,  
the air smells of diesel and ash,

firing squads [ready their rifles](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/09/live-stream-execution-fort-hood-shooter?ref=andyposner.org),  
satellites fail, or [are made to fail](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8wy9veedgygo?ref=andyposner.org).

Where am I to flee? Paris [burns too](https://www.axios.com/2026/10/14/france-crises-fires-hackers-protests-debt?ref=andyposner.org),  
and [Jakarta](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/15/indonesia-fires-dry-ice-dropped-toxic-haze-spreads?ref=andyposner.org), [Tirana](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/14/fire-erupts-at-albanias-education-ministry-as-protests-enter-third-day?ref=andyposner.org), [Brussels](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/9/thousands-rally-for-anti-austerity-protest-in-brussels-amid-clashes?ref=andyposner.org), [Kyiv](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/15/world/europe/ukraine-jet-drone-interceptor.html?ref=andyposner.org)...

If the State asks why I bothered with poetry  
answer *he lost his mind and you know why*.