by Michael Yaworsky
'nother one just happened newest fresh obscenity in the horror-of-the-month club after the flash and the bang and the shock and the nausea we shake our concussed heads and cast about forwurdswerdswords do words (birds nerds Kurds herds turds) bring solace or are they only sounds (zounds dog pounds baying hounds double downs merry-go-rounds lost and founds) a wraith emerges from the fragments what did she see? what does she feel/taste/swallow/breathe what will she dream nights? shooting, she says. horrible screams bad smell. crying the people…. they were wearing blood o what barbarous usage! what do we wear, we pious, we posers, we prognosticators, we pretenders we promise mongers, promise makers, promise keepers, promise breakers? I do not say it well she apologizes in words heavily accented by some foreign tongue my insides scream otherwise as my back slithers down the side of the sound truck I double over taste pavement and weep ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ After the Brussels airport and metro station bombings on March 22, 2016, an English-speaking news outlet asked one victim to describe what she’d seen. Part of her description was that “the people were wearing blood.”
Michael Yaworsky is a retired lawyer/legal editor. He lives in Rochester’s 19th Ward with his family.
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