Eleven days before Christmas
a 20-year old shoots his mother four times in the face
then storms an elementary school and guns down dozens
more.
A reporter remarks on the darkness behind him –
no one in Newtown feels like celebrating Christmas
so they’ve turned off the lights.
There’s to be a royal baby,
and a nurse who leaks news about the mother,
humiliated, hangs herself.
Darkness covers
the earth,
and gross
darkness the people.
The Light shines in
the darkness.
But there is no
room
for the royal Babe
Whose hanging
brings hope for a
New Town.
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