Poems and Thoughts    by Frank Maurer

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The Misled Missile. A misled missile took 168 innocent lives. Of all things, a girls' school wrongly mapped. How tragic and unnecessary. Now 168 pink backpacks are held up in the air To protest this thoughtlessness and loss. These young women never to mature, Never to make others happy, Never to have their babies, Never to be part of the workforce, Never to simply cook a nice meal. The school building is broken. The bodies are broken. Our hearts are broken Iran is paying tribute with pink backpacks to 168 schoolgirls murdered by the Trump Administration during the FIFA World Cup is a viciously quiet read. The backpacks are pink, the message to The World is pitch black. Frank Maurer 17 June 2026 1420 Hours.