30/30: Golden Shovel poem #27.2

source: Family Sees Snippet of Video in Police Shooting

 

The shooting is something no family

Should ever see. Yet this family sees

More than it should ever see. Even a snippet

Is too much when a snippet of

Death happens three times a day. The video

Is on endless loop on TV, in bars, in airports, in

Living rooms. The war began long ago between police

And families of color. Who will stop the shooting.

 

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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.