Three teens’ chlorine waves,

sunburnt noses selecting
today’s bikini
 
While I spent hollow
night pillow-clutching, as I
won’t report old crimes.
 
Boy of sixteen, dread-
headed, robs Kroger, skips, and
stalks a girl of twelve:
 
Baby shot in lot,
spirit stolen by pigs, once
boys, mother gutted.
 
Please, will you help me
try to save all the children?
Even from themselves?