Little Things or Watch How you Cook Those Eggs

Found Poem #18: Little Things or Watch How you Cook Those Eggs

A man facing eviction
Over his hostile temper
Became enraged
By how his wife
Cooked his eggs

And killed her,
His stepdaughter,
And three neighbors
With a shotgun
In two mobile homes
In rural Eastern Kentucky.

The man, Stanley Neace, 47,
Then went to his home
And shot himself.

Police found his body
On the porch of his trailer.

Kay Rastegar,
Mr. Neace’s landlord,
Said he had begun evicting Mr. Neace
Because he had become
Increasingly hostile toward neighbors.

“He was unpredictable,”
Mr. Rastegar said.
“Little things would set him off.”

Source: The New York Times, September 12, 2010