As blood is brought where infection is
So was I brought to Los Angeles

Toting only my REI membership card
And University of California ID

“Access the inaccessible”
My headlamp quibbled

But I didn’t need its LEDs
To see them, the coyotes,

Rip the heads from Griffin’s chickens
In broad daylight when I’d let them out to graze

Because Griffin told me to because
He’d made a calculation

Their freedom of movement
Was worth the risk of death, certain

Though it seemed to me, even when the coyotes
Left the necks intact, bleeding

And I had Mike come over and finish the job
And I just watched and it was and was not

Like the news, it wasn’t like watching the news
At all, but it helped me understand the news