A Second Changes Everything
A Second Changes Everything
A bullet leaves the barrel of a gun
A man thinks ‘what have I done?’
The sky is cornflower blue, without a cloud
The President waves at people in the crowd
A woman turns slightly to look at him
The sun glints off the Lincoln’s trim
A watcher points a cine-camera at the parade
A secret service agent dreams of getting laid
A little girl points and shouts her praise
A shy teen catches his eyes, averts her gaze
The driver concentrates on the underpass
The Governor is distracted by reflections in the windshield’s glass
A black man turns his head towards the fatal crack
And thinks someone has just let off a Cracker Jack
A worker on the floor below thinks he hears a shot
A secretary thinks that JFK looks hot
The red brick building casts a shadow long
The Police outriders sense that somethings wrong
America holds its breath as the echoes ring
Around Dealey Plaza - a second changes everything
M.C. Newberry
Mon 11th May 2020 18:11
You're right about changing the world "in a second". That happened
when a youth named Princip decided to shoot a certain Archduke
and his wife in Sarajevo more than a century ago.