Four days after Ariel was shot
I was walking home past dark
Police car cruises up to me, I'm in a park in the city
"When you're white in this cement land"
Two boys combing a Merrimack beach
In their tracks one dead body
Make sense of a scene that has a named ending
"Boy taken in gang fight"
A local dream wish to take take someone off a cultural guilt list
I'm walking home, it's two blocks that way
No I won't get in the cab, it smells like a pale force field