Danny Gentile #78 - Heckle

Taunting words
Then aghast silence

Waiting at the crowd’s edge
For resolution

And then the howl rises again

How long did you keep
This cage of feeling?

Seeing a face retreat
Into the throng

And how often did you
Itemise the reactions

Stock still at the back wall

Where the response
Now rises to slap back

And the screams of children
In a playground on repeat

Fill the in between
In the usual way

At the edge of the story

In the end you will have
Trouble remembering

Where the chorus started
And how it turned.