Tag Archives: humanity

DEVICE

DEVICE

it’s good that politicians
measure blood exactly

know to the recurring decimal
how much blood
resides in
an eye
      when
exchanged for another eye

or a liver, spleen
or a brain

or a fat ton of innards
ripped out of the belly
they were
always in by
lethal fragmentation
               weapon

or anti-personnel
explosive device

the weapons market considers
rather nice

INSCRIPTION

INSCRIPTION

I have copies
occur
   in many different forms

have more than three
                       dimensions

I write write write write
if only to prove
that I myself
am an inscription

catch my drift
get my gist
go with my flow

              even as
a greater flow, deeper drift
quintessential gist
                      is what
life
    has me follow
     dictates here

this is what I grasp
all that I have grasped
           from that recitation

practically everything I need
to write, and learn, and be.

FOR THAT LESSON

FOR THAT LESSON

I was not there
for that lesson
when Adam and
Eve scoffed
forbidden fruit
had to high-tail
it from Eden

I missed the moral
and geopolitical teaching
that story purveys

similarly, must have
skipped class when
the Mongols took
Baghdad, the Crusaders
stormed
    into Jerusalem, they
had their final
solution indaba at
Wannasee, and
Enola Gay dropped
her fat
fat egg

and so many knowledge
laden, wisdom enriched
tutorials and workshops
will no doubt
be scheduled when
I am no
longer around

history is the story of
where exactly we
were not
at the time, what
shaped
    the world we
were born into, could
not
   have been born
without which

but such a bloody, terrible,
power-driven furious fable
neither
        more nor less
than this one we are in.