People going crazy in opposing crowds
nothing good can come of this.
Sporadic fights beginning to break out.
Chaos erupting. Hatred rising. Knives
flashing in the tumultuous sunlight.
Each side righteously right.
Massive clash, like Medieval shield battle.
Broken faces, shattered teeth, ten dead.
Only the national guard and legions of
police can quell the roaring din, the
rage, the insanity, the killings.
Thirty dead before it’s over, three police
among them.
All of it political, right and left, many jailed,
some for life, tear stricken wives, all for
uncontrolled tempers, sober regrets, too
late for those jailed and those dead.
Bob Boyd