[Newspoetry] New York

[Robert Porter]

At this moment, all artifice and craft seems like an insult to the people
who have died today, and those who loved them.

There are reasons why this happened, and over the next few days, I'm sure
this event will be analyzed and rationalized, picked over and processed.

But the bare reality of today's events is an open wound which has not had
any time to scab over, and all I can think of is that those people have lost
their lives.

--Bob Porter