Day 932

A body
by the side of the road,
body of a young man.
Somebody’s son. Probably
somebody’s brother. Will he
be brought to some
barely functioning hospital
without a name, an address?
With no one to claim him,
no one alive to whom
he belonged? Say
what we can about him:
a young man, maybe
nineteen, twenty. Thin:
possibly hadn’t eaten
in days. Time of death:
earlier today. Body
not completely cold.
Death by what was fired
from a drone. Yesterday
he was alive: we can guess
that he spoke, walked,
maybe slept. Was surrounded
by others he might
have lived with.