sweet and strange
clown in Drama class
fond of fire
news clipping narrated
NOT ACCEPTED INTO THE MILITARY
PARANOID
DELUSIONAL
cloth and wood charcoaled
statements of fear and suffering
escape or else
fireside stolen by flame
and silent antagonists
that makes sense
he was always a weird one
small town of racists are seething
one of their offspring
burns down a building
villagers don’t want to be the villains
still they are grateful for the fires they start
are we destined to be arsonists?
screaming for salvation
we throw the molotovs willingly
upon those we don’t understand
Photo: File Photo /Victoria Advocate
Christy Leos 