7.4.18 | just fireworks

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The show has ended, the people disperse, the smoke dissipates into the night sky.
But then,
I hear that noise and I freeze, looking everywhere around me.
Searching for signs of injured people, waiting for the screams.
But then there's nothing but laughs and I feel paranoid,
but am I really paranoid when this happens all the times?
Too many times have I seen it on the news, in the papers,
in my dreams; it doesn't belong anywhere.
Fireworks or gunshots?
One, the other, or both? Who knows!
It's just fireworks, I remind myself.
Not a shooting, not here, not right now, not today.
Not today, not ever.
Happy Fourth of July
to the nation that makes me
constantly question my safety.

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