Found

Found

A Poem by Meraki

Yo!
One word in the chaos
A flick of the wrist
A jerk of the head
And I follow

What happened?
Silence
That kind of night huh?
Damn
I was hoping it'd be an easy one
Guess those days are over

Who am I kidding?
They've been over.

How's the wife and kids?
Andrew doing well in school?
What about Katie?

Lights flash
Reporters
They swarm like flies to a corpse

Huh?
Ah, Andy has his sights set on traveling and girls
So you can imagine where school ranks on that list
And Katie got herself a boyfriend
I don't agree with it
I met the kid he's decent but not for her
But her mother told me to stay out of it

Hey, 
Tom what's this all about anyway?
Whadda the kids have to do with the case, hm?

Nothing
Pass one more tent and that's the center
The reason for all this
Hey, Tommy!
Did you hear me? 'Cause I heard me.

I don't wanna talk about the case
Not yet

Not talk about the case?
Tommy we're on the case!
Fill me in would ya?

I want you to make your own opinion
An alarm goes off 
He's scared

Out of the cover into the rain
The grass squishes
Pools of water mark the trail

Up the concrete and into the brick
The Labs scurry around
Hoarding everything they can

Alright then,
But the least you could do
Is tell me how we came to be here

Fine.
The janitor called it in
Mr. Reyes or Reynolds
Something like that

Turn here, turn there 
Up the stairs through the central doors
And I see it
I wish I hadn't

She's surrounded by Labs
S**t, I can't even process it
Fifteen years and it just gets worse 

She could've been doing some sort of yoga pose
If her chest wasn't split open
Limbs bent
Contorted and conformed to awkward angles

Her lungs
Oh God why?

Silence
Save for the quiet collecting
Scavenging
Of the Labs

A few seconds tick by
He's watching me
I turn away
Back the way I came
Somewhere else 
Not this room

I understand why he didn't want to talk
I wouldn't have either
Not about that
But still
He could've warned me

© 2016 Meraki


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Meraki
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Austin, TX



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