IN THE SHADOWS OF ELKO

You will never hear the late-night
conversations in motel rooms,
or guitars picked and strummed
without the stage lights

                    and never learn to listen
                    before asking questions
                    for the folks in town—

on assignment in the cold and snow
to get some news in God knows where
to sandwich between silly ads
and the latest mass murder.

                    The camera hums—
                    and all you want to hear
                    are poems about guns.

 

Hoppy.IMG

                                                                                for Al Jazeera

One response to “IN THE SHADOWS OF ELKO

  1. John… Perfect, just perfect.

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