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Until you’ve hurled the spear
or triggered the bullet
Pulled the jagged blade from
still warm flesh and washed
Blood from your hands,
Watched twinkling brilliant
eyes go cold and dark,
Put the plastic-wrapped package back
in the case and be on your way
You know not what you do.
Gil Hoy is a Boston trial lawyer currently studying poetry at Boston University through its Evergreen program where he had received a BA in Philosophy and Political Science. Hoy received an MA in Government from Georgetown University and a JD from the University of Virginia School of Law. He served as Brookline MA Selectman for 4 terms. Hoy's poetry appears or is upcoming in Right Hand Pointing-One Sentence Poems, The Potomac, Clark Street Review, TheNewVerse.News and The Penmen Review.