From Matthew Olzmann’s “The Tiny Men in The Horse’s Mouth”:

The war is ending. Achilles is dead.
Paris lives on in shame.

And one man
plays piano as the city burns.

I’ve been there. And because I didn’t look,
I never saw it coming.

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Olzmann’s poem “Sir Isaac Newton’s First Law of Motion” appeared in NER 30.4.