So many ships sink crossing the Bermuda Triangle

simply because there are so many ships that cross that sea.

So many famous people grace obituaries

simply because there are so many celebrated folk these days.

An explicable statistical conspiracy is at play.

Nobody logs the many names of refugees lost in the sea

nor numbers dehydrated babes

thrust prematurely into dusty graves.

Too many steered into a grim oblivion

by far too few.

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