Wednesday 14 June 2017

Death by Neglect


Driving east towards the dentist
I am trapped in the hot capsule of my car.
The sun 
a magnifying glass through the windscreen 
burns my leg
inside the material of my jeans.
It reddens the skin on my arm
already  stained 
with raised spots of
solar keratoses.

Only sun damage.
Not death
 by fire
by searing flames
by chemical smoke
by someone's
neglect.
And 
greed.

Someone who did not live alongside
 the 600 people -
man
woman
child -
inside
that tall
 unprotected
 box in the sky 
 they called
 home.

 Now a black
smoking
skeleton,
 water hosed
 down 
and out.

A careless capsule
 of
death.
An  agony
 of
outrage
 for
those 
left 
alive.
And damaged.



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