It will be quiet in Newtown tonight ,
it’ll be quiet for a while yet ;
The town that kept safe and itself to itself ,
out of mind like other towns
in other states and other lands ,
is no longer out of the glare
and clamour and lenses of a world
that must now intrude
in towns just like
Newtown in Connecticut :
where keeping safe and itself to itself
ended when madness spoke its lines
with a sound and a fury
and all their innocent yesterdays
went out ,out.
Poignantly moving ! questioning the bullies, the hoodlums fiercely and yet doing so by way of a requiem ! how very thoughtful !
out, out brief candles
Comment added to “Requiem For A Small Town” on The Writers’ Circle;Received 2nd.January 2013 at 2.23
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Requiem For A Small Town by louis kasatkin
The comment (by kelly bella):
There is such an agony in the American people over the devastation of lives and dreams and joys~~I read about these childrem and who they were… I read about their teachers and who they were… I just cannot write about it… not now… maybe not ever… but I am glad there are great poets that not only can but do… thank you for being a voice for those of us still struck dumb