The news from a __________, ______,
school is live on ______________ now.
Multiple aerials cover the scene as students
file out, hands up, armed officers watching
like hawks. There are at least ________ students
reported injured now. An “active shooter”
remains in the school. The Channel ___ news
anchor, _______________, is doing all she can
to engage and inform viewers, reading _______
from __________. Update: The number
of injured has raised from between _____
to ______. There is no report yet of any killed.
Sheriff ________ reports that the shooter
remains at large. A reporter on scene
interviews a student and parent leaving:
“What did you see?” “I heard ____ shot(s).
___ of my friends said their friend was shot.”
This is the ______ school shooting of 20__.
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Larry D. Thacker’s poetry can be found or is forthcoming in more than ninety publications including The Still Journal, Poetry South, Tower Poetry Society, Mad River Review, Spillway, The Southern Poetry Anthology, Mojave River Review, Mannequin Haus, Ghost City Press, Jazz Cigarette, and Appalachian Heritage. His books include Mountain Mysteries: The Mystic Traditions of Appalachia and the poetry books, Voice Hunting and Memory Train, as well as the forthcoming, Drifting in Awe. He’s presently working on his MFA in both poetry and fiction.
Image from the Twitter of @TheCaptainAidan, a freshman student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
