Crying in a Hannaford’s parking lot: a eulogy

Is violence all we now know

Can we know now how to stop this

Can we turn a table upside down

Down is up is what is the upside

What is the inside of a killer

Is their DNA barbed wire

Why’re we like this

Why do we like this

Can we not take a breath take a break take a step

Back from the brink of the end of the world

Whirled swirled blood pools on a train car floor

Do we know what we stand for anymore?

Jasper Morton

VT

15 years old

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