ZADIE INSISTS
Zadie insists
here lie
weapons of
mass destruction
vehicles
of terror
but I check my words
for the monstrous
genocidal
do not
seem to find them
no sign of bacilli,
nothing that
seriously Geiger counters
no anthrax
lurking
between the lines
no plague about
the launch itself
between the lines
no Bond PPK Walther
with screw-on silencer
unless
I am misguided
mistaken
and you see it, feel it,
smell it, taste it
hear it
all here
planning some small,
strictly limited, quiet
(and quite nonsensical
operation)
to eliminate some person
or persons
in the cause
of poetic self-interest
or the more entirely
delusional inclination
towards
liberating you all
whole of humanity
poems 2 die for 