Bert Meyers

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The Accident

There’s so much blood
the warm sun walks
like Christ upon it.

A needle's eye
in his tattered head
is losing his life’s thread.

The crowd kneels down.

We see the tailor
in his chest
work overtime.

A siren blows.
The man tries
to straighten out
his body, like
a suit of clothes.

1968

spoken = Sarah Kobrinsky