the deputies have found
a body they presume
the body they searched for
but being wise in the ways
of circumstance and whimsy
they only call it this deceased
and load it up for a coroner
to find a name and means of death
they, meanwhile, resume their search
and some poor less-than-deputy
stays behind to fill in the grave
we are a people busy with death
the body on the way to the coroner
may indeed be the kidnap victim’s
or be some earlier kidnappee
found now in the search for another
or may be a jilted lover or may be
a jilted lover’s revenge
a wounded co-conspirator
a no-longer-needed accessory
an accidental victim of a hunting trip
or just an accident, someone
sitting before the gun when it went off
and not important enough to be confessed
we are a people busy with death
who often enough have little time
for consequences of our crimes
a shallow grave implies that much
one does not bury a loved one
only finger deep in dirt
this was someone easily disposed
no one would miss him much
or at least none of the killers would
and they had lives to get back to
bills to pay and promises to keep
and if deputies later found the grave
so be it, let them then seek for answers
the killers buried in the dark
then walked into a new day
whose light made one less shadow
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