Eric Ashford Poet Free verse

Strolling With Bullets

An old man was shot
taking a walk in New York,
just taking a walk,
and maybe thinking about
how near to death he was.
It was then
that he walked right into a stray bullet.
We do not know
where the bullet was going
or where it would have gone
had the old man
not stepped in front of it.

In another part of the metropolis,
a baby is shot (quite by accident),
in the head.
It was crying in its stroller,
but when the bullet arrived it fell silent.

They say a young man
was taking out his gun for a walk.
When a cop saw the 9 milli
It was almost 8 A.M at a crosswalk
on 40second street.
Bullets flew,
a window, a pigeon, and
a small dog
were taken out.

The gunfight was reported,
as local news,
as I watched
the TV screen seemed to shrug,
despite the busy street
nobody witnessed,
it just happened.

Even so,
It was considered to be yet another,
'New York miracle',
for although the window that was shot
had a hole in it,
                      it survived.

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