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