COLLATERAL - Online (w/ audio) November 2023
Someone else filed the reports
and someone else read them,
passed them on to someone else
who organized the surveillance
that generated the phone call
that aided another someone
to determine the coordinates,
launch and guide the drone, set it
to hover high above the village,
laser the tiny target’s rooftop
so that the silently incoming missile
couldn’t possibly miss.
All he did was pull the trigger.