Media

This person died,

A terrible accident has split

millions apart and somebody’s

nation will not provide aide because

of the politics and some older demographic

that wants to feel British because that’s how things

used to be back when milk was delivered every morning

just before father unfurled the paper and disappeared behind it.

And that’s what you remembered of him yesterday morning while

you were getting the kids ready for school and television went on

and on about some new breakthrough in science that would keep

you alive longer as though you wanted to linger in the world, as though

you wanted to hear about today’s latest fashion in war, as though you

wanted to hear about unpaid taxes and lost emails when all you really

wanted was for the world to apologize for yesterday when you tripped

over a stranded toy in the hallway, to ask if you were ok and if there was

anything that you and the children needed.