Tuesday, December 15, 2015

Paris

we watch wet empty streets
at midnight
places of panic

sedate restaurant
bullets
                bleeding
                                bodies
                                                bones
                                                                breaking
in shadow of tower Eiffel

then
concert
                crashed
guns with eyes hands    sweaty fingers
holding heavy metal hostage
young men afraid
tickets in back pockets
running the door
                trampling
                                escaping carnage
into garish light of Paris streets
                the lucky ones

and we watch and wonder
who escapes
when terror takes a city
on a drizzle-drenched Friday November night?

silence pierced by pain

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