Hunted

I never liked that thing she did,
the way she looked out from under
her fringe, like some sort of come on.

I didn't like her little smiles,
her oh-so shyness, her high-ness,
her flutter flutter lashes.

I only twice felt sorrow for
this lady of saintly ways;
once when she was being hunted

by a pack of baying news-hounds,
camera beasts with photo eyes,
snarling in the darkness, waiting

for their unsuspecting prey to
step into the light and then
pouncing to sink their telephoto

lense into her startled eye.
She tries to run, but, cornered
she just breaks into weary tears.

The second was that night
when the news broke that again she tried
to flee the pack, but had, instead

found a peace, her body broken in
a mess of steel and concrete.
but even as she breathes her last

the pack draws in, the smell of blood
thick in their nostrils, and their hot
flash bulbs pop as they drain her.