Upon a day that changed the course of Gazans' lives,
With borders closed, their joy and jest in strife,
Weddings dull'd, their delight of dance contrives,
A year in limbo, a perilous life's trite.

In midst of tensions tearing East from West,
In China's lands consulting firms still feast.
Deloitte, Ernst & Young, with contracts dressed,
In Beijing and Washington, search for beast.

But hark! A conflict mineral doth creep,
Into the bowels of our modern tech.
From Congo's mines, to pockets deep,
U.S struggles, this flow to check.

by Brother Arnulfus

a centaur