Thursday, October 16, 2014

FIRST RESPONDER

Accosted 
at another—spindling brown 
and perfectly

charcoal black 
corner of the westside—
by sirens

and feeling 
the proud belabored
throbbing—of their 

idling diesel engines;
the very 
first thing

I manage to wonder 
is—not even 
whether

but—how well
such a mad operation
ports to network television.