Pentagon To Live Stream Firing Squad Execution - A Poem

The Pentagon plans to live-stream

the firing squad execution

of the Fort Hood shooter,

and my head is so very heavy,

and everything is covered in the ashes

of a burning planet.

I found the corpse of a water spirit

down by the creek where my parents live.

She used to play with me when I was small.

She was tangled in plastic

and mail-order clothes,

and someone had torn off her wings.