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I Did Not Know Him

Brutally murdered,

Matthew Shepard is dead

I did not know him.

So why are the black-raven beaks

breaking through the soft tissue

of my distended belly in search

of my entrails?

So why does the slow, maggot motion

within my brain devour my ideas

and destroy my ability

to understand?

So why are my legs melting

like uncontrolled lava flows and my feet

dissolving into steaming puddles

of acidic anger?

So why have the eagle’s claws

encircled my eyeballs in vicious vices,

squeezing them cruelly

into frightening blindness?

I did not know him.

—C. F. Kelly

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