UBL

“There’s been a party going on all night”.
US RAID KILLS UBL
In the bottom left ‘Fox News’ rotates like a globe;
White, yellow and red throbs a putrid frame, as
ALERT ALERT ALERT ALERT streams like electric and
Cascades forever from the edges of the earth.
“Too bad we’re not gonna see him thrown off a building”.
5:27 AM ET
UBL IS KILLED AT COMPOUND
The minutes drip blood, and images circle in their
dizzying revolutions, words painting themselves on the
Ecstatic treadmill.
THE HUNT IS OVER
“They bum-rushed the White House”, beam his teeth.
OBAMA 1
OSAMA 0
And the screen clunks like a cassette
between a triumphant sea of humanity
and a charcoaled Abbotabad.
“There’s no closure from this as my son’s not gonna walk through the door”.