12 Months on 7th - 9

9

Blinding 		yellow light
Hands 			hands grappling
Gray 			faces through
Closed 			eyes
Through 		ripping
Cloth 			through
...E's 			barely conscious, "see those?"
Oxygen 			mask taped down "see
Those?" 		Shoes off disinfectant hands
Hands 			"See these
Open 			wounds?"
Figueroa 		is empty now no
Cars 			none
Walking 		head dead
Package 		under the left arm
Newpapers 		under the right taken
Earlier 		in the
Morning 		while
Looking 		for money for breakfast
While 			waiting
While 			the "It's
Simply 			not
Ok 			to steal from others."
The 			big face
Said 			while waiting
Tucking 		the package behind the
Tire 			of
A 			parked Honda Civic with
Orange 			green
Trim 			while waiting
Sitting 		forward fingers wrapped around
His 			neck to
Stop 			talking
To 			stop
Blood 			flow to
Stop 			the catapults from firing
To 			stop
The 			rock hurled
Over 			the high walls into
Stop 			the invading the ones
Who 			don't stop
Who 			stop
Flashlights 		waving flares burning while
Waiting 		while
Waiting 		while blind