This one is a little long… I wonder if you can find the words that prompted it. Some I think are obvious.
She says the sky is falling down
In that slow spiral way she has of talking
While the watch hands march tirelessly onward
She recites her times tables
Mindless repetition
The cellular multiplication and division
Do not stop the sky from falling down
She says we all must run from the black clouds
Before the vortex eclipses them
Before the hate is sprayed onto the
Front doors of the innocent
Before the kites and larks are like
The fall of a sparrow
She remembers when we were free
And we could hike across town
In garish colours
Without fearing that short sharp shock
The impromptu rap of the sky falling down
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