Click (Never Forget)

Click.

Look at all those bodies

in that pile,

they’re practically skeletons,

and watch this-

they just bulldoze them

into a giant grave,

those goddamned Nazis.

Click.

Watch when Ruby

steps in

to shoot Oswald.

Back up,

now freeze it -

look at that face.

Click.

This is video

of the last helicopters

leaving Saigon,

look at how they’re

holding on

trying to fly out of there.

Click.

You remember this one:

the famous video

of the second plane

hitting the Twin Towers,

and now listen 

to the panic.

Click.

This is Hurricane Katrina,

look at that poor guy

in a rowboat

with his handmade sign.

Click.

And this is

from last summer

in Aurora, Colorado.

Click.

And there’s

Hurricane Sandy.

Click.

And the

Sandy Hook massacre.

Click

And the Boston marathon.

Click.

Click.

Click.

I don’t have all these

sites bookmarked for

some perverse thrill.

I keep them

so I will

never forget.

Yeah, I know,

I sound desensitized,

but I’m not:

I’m just overwhelmed.

[Posted for #meetingthebar at http://dversepoets.com/2013/04/18/meeting-the-bar-the-unfathomable/ - come along and mourn with me.]