Watching and Responding to a Dark Documentary
Sleeping
with a knife
under her pillow
This is how
the girl lives
now
A girl assaulted
exploited
YouTubed
to death
her kind of
mom milking
views for
money
What hurts me
most is how
I poem
while watching
the show
writing words
like a courtroom
artist sketching
witnesses
&
I do this
while watching
the show
with my
daughter
written after watching the documentary Bad Influence
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Powerful moment you describe, viewing a difficult show with your daughter.
Last two stanzas, Whew!
Whoa!
the turn
“What hurts me
most is how
I poem”
Yea. That turn and all that follows.
Wow, I may go people watch and write now. Poem like a sketch artist, interesting.
Incredible write, Lee. Haunting. You are an artist, indeed.