A couple of teenagers beat
a homeless man to death
with their skateboards.
I saw the story on the news
as summer night sounds
drifted in through the windows
like a murmured incantation.
Somewhere between sleeping
on the streets and the silver clouds
there must have been a woman
carrying a child up the stairs.
Howie Good is the author of The Loser’s Guide to Street Fighting, winner of the 2017 Lorien Prize and forthcoming from Thoughtcrime Press, and Dangerous Acts Starring Unstable Elements, winner of the 2015 Press Americana Prize for Poetry.
