Poem for today (seemed appropriate)

The flags drop to half-mast

anytime anyone dies:

for the shooting in DC,

the one in Florida, the one

in Colorado, or any other state?

Or the ones 10 yrs ago today. Or

the ones that haven’t happened yet.

Not for the ones in Iraq,

I’m guessing.

The flags stay at half-mast

Half the whirlygigs shut

down at the wind farm

how now brown corn

cows browsing water

all along an irrigation arm:

mamma’s little animals

wanna live too.

there, there

where, where

Pappa’s little critters

Pappa’s little critters

Pappa’s little critters

say sauve qui peut