can you please state your name
Xochitl Tzompantli
what kind of name is that
it was given to me by an indian woman
black hair long black shawl — it
means Skull Rack Flower
well let’s get to business here why
are you here in the first place
i do not
talk about
that all i know
eyes
swim before
me a river
eyes
fall upon me w/candle
fire in their blood
to come —
what do you tell them
nothing
why are you speaking to me
— dying falling wars
everything inside of me is
alive & dying at the
sametime against each other
what do you know about war you are nothing
but a wall
a lie touch me
like they
touch me
climb upon me
like they give
their deepest bones — i
carry a severed withering
night unto night
inside
you will find your name
written on a piece of flesh
you are a bit dramatic i am just interested in
a simple & short interview
of course everyone is
why are you here besides being a hard-working
border apparatus
i give you
meaning
come on that is easy
every one
eats from my flesh
calls me from afar
nails me pour themselves
into me take me to the sky threads
i feed
meaning i
prepare a place more for you
than for the ones here
what you are saying
it does
not matter
well ok ok what about your friends plans projects
hobbies like that
i do not have such
things as friends
ok well we are done
wait —
my name is Xochitl Tzompantli
Skull Rack Flower i am
the life-cutter the eater
watchtowers guards artillery
wires & codes & dogs &
filth nourish me
i provide
ghosts unclaimed that tie you to a circle
of tortured faces that on occasion
appears as a flower on your suit
i
bow down to them i remember them
i ask them to
forgive me but
all they see is
you