Caryl Pagel
BREAKING NEWS
DO NOT UNDERSTAND
At daybreak bodies
lie already flat
in some dark carton
no longer strewn no
longer pressed—stumped a-
gainst a class-wall A
forest of babes razed
mere miles from all their
good neighbors Yester-
day the milkman woke
early He wore his
usual white cap
his usual un-
iform Do we fear
the hope of deceit
no more? Who can fore-
see? Is there a terr-
or of evidence
we cannot ignore?
