Monday, December 24, 2012

News Brief - December 2012


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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