Kindle For the Book Burning

by

Jéanpaul Ferro
 

 

At the Kingston Station,
we stood on the edge of the platform € €
the rain beating racist
(black)
against our raincoats.

Father turned to me and said:
“Is there anything that offends you?”

I stood there and thought about all the children
men have sodomized,
their mothers who we freely allow to be killed,
the bombs and silos part of the
collective subconscious...

And I looked over at my father,
and I saw the reflection of the train coming at us in his eyes:

† † †

“No,” I whispered,
“only that we all must die.”

 

 

Jéanpaul Ferro is a poet, freelance writer, and novelist. His work has appeared in Portland Monthly, Hawaii Review, Newport Review, The Plaza, Mid-South Review, and Biblioteka Alexandria. His work has also been featured in The Plaza's masterpiece series and Votobia's Anthology of America's Writers. He currently resides in Providence, Rhode Island.