source: Police Shoot Student Dead at High School in Tennessee
No one wanted to call the police.
No one knew who organized the shoot.
No one saw the new student.
No one believed she was dead.
No one remembered where the game was at.
No one thought the student was high.
No one compared their life to school.
No one fell out of this world in
the distilleries of Tennessee.
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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.
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