When HE was SHOT

It is not easy, change is

hard -- and in
the same words,

as the wife of Jackie Kennedy, he
introduced himself:

and it was hot,
humid

almost unbearable when it
hit

the momentum of a
criminal

lighting off of the
mind

into darkness, even if we knew how to
separate,

it was hard to know
whether

another one had not intended to shoot
also

just because,

the feeling
of

lightened repetition:

for a
while, i walked around, not knowing

where i was or
going and when i had walked so much

as to be dead
tired,

i fell into weeping, endless sleep. woke
up

took a bath, prepared my face for
those

who knew

change was
unhappiness.