We are the accessible.
Our crime is that we're ordinary,
readily available,
gawping guppy fish bait-balled in barrel,
cattle conveniently corralled.
We are the accessible.
Our tragedy is that we're easy to kill,
news of our demise
supplies scinti-titillating headers.
Anchor men and women
hone their sombre concern,
journalists fantasise
of Pulitzers.
As for those who profit directly
by death:
the jihad bastards, the evil supremacists,
the weapons dealers, crafty politicians,
spruikers of self-serving sermons
and all the myriad purveyors
of Hieronymus madness...
