There will not be a Dr. King.
His re-incarnation was pronounced dead at
an Atlanta hospital, the victim of a gun shot.
There will not be a next Krishna.
He was one of eight killed by an explosion
at a Indian house near the Pakistani border.
There will not a 15th Dalai Lama.
The small child was shot dead by
Chinese troops while fleeing Tibet.
There will be no second coming,
The boy was killed by a car bomb while
walking to school in Bethlehem.
There will not be another white Rhino.
Poachers shot the last two,
killing one and wounding the other.
…and you?...Where the fuck were you?
Laying in bed watching the news?
The globe turns its face and looks away.
DQ 6/12/07
