The girl that was raped and left in the ditch was beautiful
so was
            the car that the kids at the playground saw her get into
for the last time
            and the color of her hair as the sun shone off of it
and the dress she had on
            before it was torn
and the day
            she was found
was beautiful too.

1991 G. Bennett Ulrich
reprinted with permission of author
               2006 Death House Press