Wednesday, October 26, 2011

To The TV Viewers You're Just a Stain

To The TV Viewers You're Just a Stain by Emily

All that remained was a stain on the pavement

No more news helicopters flying overhead

No more breaking headlines, they cut to commercial

No more jaws of life, prying open your mid-sized sedan

Just a tow truck dragging away your car

An ambulance fleeing

With your plastic cocooned body

Broken glass and debris

And that angry red stain



But I wonder if you were really a person like me

Or just another casual casualty on TV



How much life was in you?

Would you hug a stranger if they were crying?

Were you allergic to peanuts or shellfish?

Did you floss your teeth every night before bed?

Did you leave behind a widowed lover?

Did you believe in god?



I’ll offer up a few minutes of silence

And make up a memory of you in my mind

Swinging away in a park at age five

With ketchup stains on your jacket

And threadbare patches on the knees of your jeans

Then allow thoughts of you

To fade

Like the stain

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