"It's happening on a day when the DOW industrial average was already down 175 points."
- Adam Johnson, Bloomberg Television, covering the Boston Marathon bombing
One by one she piled them,
bodies and fragments,
broken and tattered,
onto the golden scale.
their hands and feet,
swollen with innocence,
fell lifeless as the eyes
of their adjudicator.
where is your soul,
Lady Liberty?
where is your god,
oh, Freedom?
cold gears creaked
as the balance swayed;
songs of the hand
that guides the machine.
what is the stock price
of flesh these days?
and does our ignorance
provoke or appease you?
Boston, it seems,
is filled with heavy streets.
Inciting the terror
of empty pockets.
When our death tolls
read like itemized deductions,
something has gone terribly wrong.
Apr 21, 2013
Apr 21, 2013 at 1:59 AM UTC
"It's happening on a day when the DOW industrial average was already down 175 points."
- Adam Johnson, Bloomberg Television, covering the Boston Marathon bombing
One by one she piled them,
bodies and fragments,
broken and tattered,
onto the golden scale.
their hands and feet,
swollen with innocence,
fell lifeless as the eyes
of their adjudicator.
where is your soul,
Lady Liberty?
where is your god,
oh, Freedom?
cold gears creaked
as the balance swayed;
songs of the hand
that guides the machine.
what is the stock price
of flesh these days?
and does our ignorance
provoke or appease you?
Boston, it seems,
is filled with heavy streets.
Inciting the terror
of empty pockets.
When our death tolls
read like itemized deductions,
something has gone terribly wrong.
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