Juxtaposition

I had to go to the store –
buy a pumpkin pie for my son's preschool event –
got in the car to drive home,
listened to National Public Radio.

Iris Chang committed suicide
on Wednesday – a shot to the head;
grandparents escaped China during WWII
oppression.

Her husband and two-year-old child alive.

My rear-view mirror held the gaze of my youngest –
two-and-a-half.
NPR played a requiem –
allowed me to sit with it.

Later the children ate pumpkin pie.