radio thick blood

I sit in my room

as they advise

that another united nations envoy

has been captured to the shock of their country

by another country

another suffering

we kill a few of theirs

so they kill a few of ours

and the beers won’t pour all night

but five dollars will get you a look

at the darkside

in all our hearts

to a charlie parker tune

and even he had his own hell

that we’re still looking after here

when someone else visited china

people committed to bring about change in chile

and the beer is going down twice as fast

but the contraband didn’t even make it past airport security

and someone praises botulism in our hemisphere

and radio thick blood

while I just sit here and get narrow

like a crowd at the bullfights

where hemingway made it,

approaching the dregs like a slow dawn,

tears inconceivable