30/30: Golden Shovel #10

source: Despite Screening Plans, Pentagon Faces Slog in Rooting Out Extremism

 

The cause of the shooting has not been determined, despite

clues that point toward a clandestine screening

for wrong thought. “There are no plans

to look for the pentagon

code,” an official says, but she faces

multiple inquiries while her department’s slog

through evidence offers the appearance of trust in

reason. Questions of who is rooting

for whom underlie deep skepticism as out

of control police fall deeper into extremism.

 

(This is more a short story than a poem.)

 

Here is how I am using Terrance Hayes’s Golden Shovel poem format, as proposed by the Sunday New York Times "At Home" section, for 30 Poems in 30 Days during National Poetry Month.

 

Take a newspaper headline that attracts you.

Use each word in the line as the end word for each line in your poem.

Keep the end words in order.

Describe the story that the headline is for.

The poem does not have to be about the same subject as the headline that creates the end words.