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The Once King without a Future

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The Once King without a Future

(23 November 1963)

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We were told he was a king

Who lived in Camelot

I didn’t know

I was a child and

At home

We didn’t talk about the king

I have a memory from school

Then at home

In following days

In front of the TV

My mother ironing, behind

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A king

A coup d’état

The vice-king became king

The jesters all moved over

And up one

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Mostly, he was killed

His wife picked up a piece of him

For the doctors

The killer then was killed

And that killer died

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And we all moved over in the nation

Though we did not move up

There was no domino

There was a funeral

That everyone attended

For me

And children like me,

It was in black and white

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C L Couch

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Photo by NASA on Unsplash

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Eternal Flame

Eternal Flame

(on 22 November 1963)

 

JFK died today

It seems we murder him

Once a year

Not out of disrespect

(not at first, not now)

But because our curiosity

Cannot be assuaged

 

We want to know

We have to

Was it a coup d’état?

So many now are gone

Though not everyone

Maybe it’s easier to inquire

Today

And with the passing of more time

 

I don’t understand how

The killing of Archduke Ferdinand

Incited a great war

So much outrage

In civility,

 

But it was counted on in 1963

To change then calcify

The time

To change out daylight evidence

And what happens in

Shadows

 

No wonder our youth went crazy then

Protesting betrayal from

Our parents’ generation

 

Where are we now?

We’re here;

We want to know

 

The truth is poignant

It slices to the heart

Small cuts or one large

Vivisection

We live while

Everything is opened

Survival says we’ll manage

Once we know

 

C L Couch

 

 

By Eddie Maloney from North Las Vegas, USA – DSC_1812, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=31879783

 

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