Something Wicked
The good people
of the town
do not deserve
to die, but
they will
as they have
forever, as
the graveyard
attests to.
They do not
deserve to fall
in love and
watch as despite
their loving
their love
grows old
and dies, to
witness their
records in
baseball or
basketball be
broken by
successive
generations, to
see streets be
renamed as
they were
once already
renamed when
in the Armistace
they were boys
or girls and
there still ran
a street car
electric down
mainstreet.
Boys and girls.
No one
deserves to
die.