Howie Good

 

 

Police and Questions

 
The News at 11

 

  The world is a rifle butt
smashed in your face

a panting hand reaching
for your only child

And now the weather

What if our hearts weren’t
such paper-thin bags

of blood and vomit
what if they were shiny

like the water-bright coats
of prancing red horses


 

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