Raw by Kristina Woodhill paint the aisles blood red an extra splash as the head lolls oddly on its own a final spray before the inner tubing expels all and collapses as bits and pieces are cut and carved away a head has imploded a head has imploded and the bus rolls along dab cheeks with white chalk shock pupils black pin points frozen frozen place faces at windows silent screams pencil swirling lines around each bus wheel hands drawn empty no way to stop no way to stop this story has no exit 08/07/2008 Author's Note: Enter with care. This poem is my trying to deal with this. You may not want to. A man on a bus in Canada stabs a sleeping passenger to death, decapitates him, cuts him up and eats parts - passengers reportedly could or would do nothing to stop it. The man had no record of problems. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7542507.stm) Posted on 08/07/2008 Copyright © 2025 Kristina Woodhill Member Comments on this Poem Posted by Nanette Bellman on 08/08/08 at 01:43 AM I heard about this this morning. So sad. Great read though. Posted by Brian Francis on 08/08/08 at 04:05 AM Yes this does capture that horror of that news story. nice job. --bf Posted by Charlie Morgan on 08/08/08 at 12:29 PM ...tho tragic, like nanette says kristina, great succinct[sad statement on the human condition]story from reality... Posted by George Hoerner on 08/08/08 at 03:20 PM It is all too typical of our lack of involvement with goes on right in front of us. It is almost as if we see so much death and destruction on TV that we become to numb to it or we are just too afraid. Posted by Don Matley on 08/09/08 at 10:37 PM Powerful poetic comment on a powerful event as if the bus and its passengers were suddenly thrown onto the stage of a Greek Tragedy. I think it happened so fast and in such a confined environment that the passengers could do little. But it begs the question we all might face one day, would we lunge at the hijackers and try to overcome their weapon of fear, surprise and box-cutters. I say I would have acted but will I if ever I am challenged. Your words do justice to such senseless horror. Posted by Emma Turtle on 10/21/09 at 06:42 PM Such a tragic event but the way you have captured it is very well done, the part that states no one tried to stop it just shows what our society is capable of. Return to the Previous Page   pathetic.org Version 7.3.2 May 2004 Terms and Conditions of Use 0 member(s) and 2 visitor(s) online All works Copyright © 2025 their respective authors. Page Generated In 0 Second(s)