a gunman is a gunman is a gunman
like the chorus line tryout i felt nothing

it was worth noting the small matter
of gathering rare ingredients for a drink

a monday morning death toll
as specific as thursday’s Powerball

this time he can’t be arsed with the filter
it doesn’t come up at the crumbs

of somebody from the health team’s birthday
in a lunch room packed with a mail out

she forgets about it and hits refresh
details washed like an easy stain

the untroubled market hardly wobbles
while the algorithms digest the data

Liam Ferney