ENTIRE
you have clocked us
and cluedoed us
and played
every
game
with us
to see the world
through photoshopped eyes
to switch on that strobe light
good for interrogations
but not for
viewing from a divine perspective
all you have dehumanized
stripped of humanity
millions of God’s image
murdered
each, as your great book says,
a Universe entire
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
GIMME
world’s
falling apart
little children
getting blown
to
smithereens
so gimme that
sweet false consciousness
that would come
with a
SuperBowl victory
don’t let Mahomes
spoil everything
with
an insane overtime
charge
this after Kyle left
his best laid plans
in a briefcase
in the
locker room
this is not
the script I want,
I need
so write me a new one
bring me that
thick syrupy delusion
that a Niners’
Vegas victory
would bring
the world falling apart
bits
of little
children
how come I always get
caught this way
how come
I’m not
so smart
LINE
you drew a line
said this is
the law, the rule,
the commandment,
the ordinance,
the regulation
suddenly
no sooner had
you signed off
than the line curved
bent multiplied
wriggled all
over
the page
my page
not yours;
on your still a single line
plain as day
cutting across the page
East to West
right to
left
dividing everything
North South
into two
unequal
hemispheres
you drew a line
for all time
CHEW
comfort zone
comfort zone
swallowing pills faster
than cartridges
passing through
a machine gun
tablets so immense
you could engrave each one
with a fresh
host of
commandments
comfort zone
comfort zone
the dread spectacle of knowing
that one day for sure
you be
bound to
bite off
much more than you can chew
FAR FROM IT
far from it,
we did not
get rid
of them
as vicious and
insufferable
as they had become
we just let them
fade into nothing
embrace
non-being
going nowhere
we simply allowed them
to reach
that destination
perhaps ushering them
a little
but it was for
their own good
genocide?
no that is their
much contested term
and yet
habitual practice
such actions
lie beyond us
this word
not in
our vocabulary
but see
look here
admire
what we have done with
the planet
how we have integrated
everything, biological
and technological
organic
and machine
everything flourishing,
renewable and recyclable
this
our mandate terrestrial
and cosmic
in equal aesthetic and
intellectual measure
ours
is the new spirituality
to take
across the galaxy
theirs a
contempt for themselves,
the sacredness of being
and life
of every living thing
GRAVELY SPOKEN
the gravity of these lies
as each lie is by the following
monstrously compounded
will drill a hole in the
fabric of
space time
a sewer for truth
where truth will be dragged be crushed
never to be seen again
until our
full self-destruction
AND BEYOND
happily
we are
expanding the war
extending the fighting
throughout
to whole region
taking on
every axis of resistance
axis of evil
allowing the entire
government, every
politician to
wallow in
power
play
at battle
extend expand
the conflict
across the globe
to the edges
of ths galaxy
killing boldly
where no one
has ever killed before
for
all eternity
to infinity
and beyond
ROLL
rolled my eyes
during your poetry reading
tried my best
but could not help myself
kept thinking of
a ballroom waltz but
the dancers on
rollerskates
with the skates themselves rusted
and long strangers
to oil
as a whole, not the rock
and roll linguistic gig
I had been
anticipating
as a whole, the sum of each line
as a part
considerably less
than a hole
TRADE SURPLUS
shut up with
this stupidity
are you grooving
into an epoch of
mental deficiency?
just because it is
the sublime will of money
the rapture of
self-serving power
when I see you
talking your processed
speech
I wonder how much
in the way of steel pins
for your face
brass screws
for your teeth
when they resolved
that you should
trade
your humanity
rent out your heart
poems 2 die for