trapped inside

they burn buses
another
woman is trapped inside
dying
later, hospitalized with severely charcoaled-
to-a-crisp skin, or smoke asphyxiation …they don't
wonder if
the people riding these suburban busses
don't live in their slums -
parents of friends? -
before heaving the Molotov cocktail
to do its destruction… they don't think, unfeeling,
about anything beyond what they deem their own misfortune…
who wears hundred dollar Nikes, and defines
misery? the dead woman? her family indebted for life
paying the bills?



trapped inside
9 november, 2006
[2006.9.11…a]
(Pi Poetry form
Daily Winner of the Writer's Cramp)

Author's Note:
The latest creation of free violence in France is burning busses, without taking the time to let all of the passengers get off before throwing in the home-made bombs. The perpetrators of these acts are teen-agers.