Amber Alert
Across the restaurant phones begin to siren
a child has been kidnapped
people glance silence
some read
A woman mumbles
she thought she had turned it off
she shows her friends how to turn it off
White sedan with New Mexico license plates
tinted windows
The child is 5 was wearing red
shoes that light up
Normalcy returns
near immediate
a few moments and a single phone
repeats the sound
A muffle in someone's bag
embarrassed to be there
no one looks up
And it must be ok
because within 8 hours they find them
they arrest the man
the child goes home
It must be
because despite no one helping
everything went well
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