30 Poems in 30 Days: A brick through glass (6/30)
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Newsvine6 June 2007
A brick through glass
by Daniel R Stout
There’s a space
between night and dawn
when evil rolls out and
people are fearful.
The timid and the regular
are long asleep – not caring
what excitements the night
may bring.
Others are awake by accident.
They stew in the
all-night coffee shops waiting
for sunlight or a tinge of drowsiness
whichever first may come.
But that space between night
is dangerous.
Evil is predictable,
and entirely surprising.
A car parked
on the side of the road
is its prey tonight.
That car is my car.
I am elsewhere, near, distracted.
And evil rears its head
and throws itself through
the windshield.
Tomorrow, the police officer
will look at the broken glass.
And he will say, “There have been
many reports this morning.”
Evil lurks,
and scours the city for prey.
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Ok, Mr. Melodrama, it was just a couple of kids having fun. And your windshield cost what to replace? $100? I got hit by a Buick in a Wal-Mart parking lot and had $7000 worth of damage, while the Buick had $300 of damage, and that happened in broad daylight. Perhaps evil lurks all day long, and not just at night?