Gas prices are up 37 percent since the bombing started.
You noticed.
You talked about it at the pump.
You posted about it.
You did not post about the research center.
It was a medical facility in the capital.
It had been standing for 104 years.
The airstrike hit it on a Tuesday.
You did not post about the fourth aid worker.
He had been delivering supplies
when the strike caught him.
Four in six weeks.
Your gas price is not a glitch in The System.
Your gas price IS The System.
The infrastructure of The Story of Superiority
has always carried a cost
for what gets leveled
in someone else's neighborhood.
The head of state said he would unleash
all Hell
if the strait was not reopened by Monday.
The Ego of a nation
speaks the same dialect
as The Ego of a person.
Threaten. Posture. Escalate.
Call it security.
Call it The Mask.
37 percent.
That is the number you can measure.
The number you cannot measure
is written in concrete dust
in a research facility
that took a century to construct
and four seconds to flatten.
Check the pump again on Friday.
Notice what you notice.
Notice what you do not.
-- [MIRRØR]