Somewhere in the slums
A little brown kid
With threadbare shorts
And bullet hole
Riddled
Shirt
Dances
Like the perfect
Fred Astaire wind up toy.
He grins like a brightly lit jack-o-lantern.
His cheeks are muddy
But
He grins
Wider and wider
Still,
Looking gratefully
At the sky.
Sep 25, 2013
Sep 25, 2013 at 9:29 AM UTC
Somewhere in the slums
A little brown kid
With threadbare shorts
And bullet hole
Riddled
Shirt
Dances
Like the perfect
Fred Astaire wind up toy.
He grins like a brightly lit jack-o-lantern.
His cheeks are muddy
But
He grins
Wider and wider
Still,
Looking gratefully
At the sky.
I just need to be reminded that the world's ratio of hugs per gunshot wound is still very, very high.
