This is a poem called Small Shoes,
which was inspired by a photo of a Syrian child, Alan Kurdi.
Maybe you can imagine the photograph of a little boy
washed up on a beach face down.
And when I saw that photo, my son also has short dark hair
and was the same age.
Motion Poems, which is an organization in Minneapolis,
made both this poem with one filmmaker and Good Bones
with another filmmaker into short films.
So if you go to the Motion Poems website,
you can actually watch a short film of this poem
and it will make you cry.
So if you're not in the mood for that, just don't do it.
But if you need a good tear ducts cleansing,
it's a good idea.
Small Shoes.
If there are fewer stars now than when I was a child,
I can't say which are missing.
Who was the last to see them?
Is it not a crime unless we call it a crime?
It is difficult to document a disappearance.
A boat full of stars capsized.
Stars lying in the sand face down wearing small shoes.
Add that to the report.
Some of the stars washed up in small shoes.