AND VANITY PRESS

AND VANITY PRESS

I am
all about death

and vanity
press

this i
(readily) confess
to
     both

    woman
and
       God

the chimes
in my head
            both essence
of poetry
but also
   cash register

and so I write
of holocaust and genocide
things that
        lately delight

if not
    why so tiny effort, huge
reluctance

to stop
    doing so?

the sound effects of
slaughter

    so much
one can do with them