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| “This was slow and methodical,” [Bobby] Jindal said [of the Lafayette, LA movie theater shootings]. “It was barbaric.” The Republican governor, who is a candidate for the 2016 presidential nomination, was pressed on whether he should reconsider certain gun-control measures in the wake of the tragedy. He said now was “not the time” to discuss policy. —The Guardian, July 25th, 2015; file photo of Jindal at another time. |
Remembering the shooter in a dark space
it all comes back in slow motion
but never slow enough
to be prevented. You might say
it was mysterious, the way the bullets
found random targets. All that remains
is to talk until no-one feels the pain,
as politics like poetry becomes
the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings:
it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
David Chorlton grew up in England, in a time when Westerns were the favored theme in TV entertainment, never anticipating that he would one day live in Arizona, as he has since 1978. His poetry has appeared widely, and FutureCycle published his Selected Poems in 2014.
