
Accidents happen
Thomas Heinz
10th Grade
Poetry
2024-2025 Spring
“It's only inevitable that she would die
I mean-
How could she not?
Girls die, that's only natural.
She was just a girl
And she died
What’s there to look into?”
He tells me, like it's a fact
I wonder why he’s so adamant about not getting the autopsy.
Why he calls her a girl and not a woman.
She had an apartment
A flat in the rough part of the city
And enough common sense
To not
Fall onto a knife.
Why does he refuse to watch true crime unless the victim is a man?
Do women not get killed too?
Or
perhaps
It is guilt.
Just another way to feel sorry for himself, because it
Wasn't his fault that he stuck that knife in her
It was only natural
And who could blame Him?
The court
Thinks that it's perfectly reasonable
That it happened
Because
She was just clumsy
And accidentally stabbed herself
57 times.
He only ended her misery
It was mercy
She would thank him if she were still alive.
I don't think that I would if I were her
But
The courts disagree;
And she was just a woman.
