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Tonight's Poet Corner: Sonnet Solstice #243

They Found The Boy by Belinda Roddie They found the boy unconscious in a ditch that had been dug beside an abandoned farm. There was blood drying on his face. "Which of you bastards did it?" howled one of them, leveling his finger at the growing crowd. "I know it was one of you! I can see right damn through you! Just because he was proud of who he was, you all just had to be so fucking prejudiced!" The loud sirens of the ambulance drowned him out. The boy was carried out in a stretcher. "Not dead," one of the paramedics said. "Oh, joy," grumbled an old woman. The group dispersed, the protester left to kneel in the dirt.

Today's OneWord: Scooter

I rode my scooter to the skateboard park, where my crush and her grungy, black tee'd buddies were practicing their ollies and spins against the unyielding and hostile concrete. I felt like such a nerd on my beaten up metal ride, but once I snapped on my headphones and settled my back against the wire fence, I saw Lily's shadow hover over me. "Whatcha listenin' to?"