At first the sound had no meaning.
The shot came from the balcony,
as if the play had sprung an annex,
and I, John Sleeper Clarke,
pictured stars through oak scaffolds
as the news traveled over
the chairscape like a stain.
20-year-old Daniel Alejandro Moreno-Gama was arrested last week for throwing a molotov cocktail at the San Francisco home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.
In that dark room lit by gas jets
the Welshman to my left conceded
the armrest we’d been fighting over
and doctors and half doctors
flowed into the scarlet aisles
to help.
29-year-old Chamel Abdulkarim, arrested on suspicion of burning down the 1.2 million-square-foot Kimberly-Clark warehouse where he worked, has allegedly “compared himself to Luigi Mangione,” according to first assistant attorney Bill Essayli. “You could hear his voice repeating several times, ‘All you had to do was pay us enough to live,’” Essayli said, adding that the suspect appeared to be motivated by “hostility to capitalism and corporations.”
I did not take to the image
of a bay mare waiting in the alley
or a manhunt through Maryland.
Yesterday Amanda Tom, 25, and Muhamad Tarik Hussein, 23, were arrested for negligent discharge of a firearm outside Altman’s home. Two riders in a Honda allegedly stopped in front of Altman’s property after having passed it a few minutes before. Allegedly, a hand reached out the passenger side window holding a gun which fired into Altman’s property. “The fear and anxiety about AI is justified,” Altman said after the molotov incident. “We are in the process of witnessing the largest change to society in a long time, and perhaps ever.”
I remember standing up
as the others did,and how the assassin was in mid-air
when the stagehands wheeled out clouds.
David Berman, “April 13, 1865”
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