EDITORS
the editors called
them in
hectored them
told them that
to keep
the people down
we need
to keep language
he we she it all
they them
need to kill
the words
kill
and liquidate
kill
and paraphrase
topple words
from their throne
strip poetry
to the bone
(reduce it to a
sweet
bare rhyme)
down
down
down
kill and devour
reduce all
words to spit
and spume
our few
true words will
hold all power
and so
the unthinkable
can
be made to think
and think
the death of truth to power
poems 2 die for 