schoolyard salvo

By theBAC

jungle gym shrapnel
impaling 8 year olds
bloody limbs on merry-go-round
hand gripping monkey bars
with no body attached
decapitated heads
rolling down the slide
bullet-ridden bodies
falling from the swings
loose eyeballs filling sandboxes
ripped of toes in the
hop-scotch square
blood pooling in the corner
of the four-square box
childhoods blown apart

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Copyright 2004 Brett Alan Coker
Published on Tuesday, April 20, 2004.     Filed under: "Poetry"
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