Blackboard

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Stephen Kampa

Blackboard

 

      After he drives the ice pick through the victim’s forehead,
       Boredom begins to drag its squeaky chalk
      Across the blackboard of his tenuous attention.
       
       Always the same: the questioning crescendo,
      Sforzando counterclaims, cadenzas of confession,
       The cries and dry heaves, then the sudden stillness—
       
      He knows the score by heart, yet after all these . . .
      . . . . . . .
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