Coruscated distress
condition or
contradiction makes
strange of
brutal instances hiss & plague her
weird sister: genocide
bruised, broken
locked in hallucination
excoriate their crime
speak out & beyond
menace bodes ill
ill shrieks ill
feeds on itself, seethes, writhes under
literalization of death
loathing itself
bloated on greed, more greed
to slaughter
whatever gets in your way
land-grab, more slaughter
divide, nullify, murder, slaughter
& disempower a people
erase a culture
how much abuse, dirty the river
starve the mother, tighten the rope
consummate a dark plan
& glee all buried all done, dumped
degraded, loathing, mass graves
bloody-handed Serb fired from a hilltop?
there’s history in it says the villain
& we are safe, excused, the way we live now
are we? (sever a neck)
are we? (rather stand condemned)
never never topple (mock, deride the temple)
political decorum
mistrust the infidel, heathen
sadistic life goes nourished
psyche a shambles, grief
crawls in a dungeon
twist inside victims’ torment
incognito mask for slaughter
botched century votes
another subhuman direction
eye lattice of wolf of garden
of traffic, survived a dawn
pick up again, a dirty war, spit it out
what kind of life to live, spit it up
when life is cheap
fucked over, codified, mechanistic
armed, disarmed find a word:
armistice, now explain, dashed in semantics
only place is to live inside others’ torment
all response tinny
forlorn, knee-jerk liberal recoils in
hounded night sound, horror
battered limb torn from limb
how won’t any speak (scream or whimper)
act, say stop, hold, enough
the unconscionable act
headlines write in blood
Muslim child raped & dying in . . .
when they say a pool of blood
a small thing, a very small thing
ruthlessly shot down, degraded body
beyond recognition,
what takes to light your love just a child
silence from Mars, days dying
silence from the sated
world, plagued
of silence, damned to no speech
what takes to say your piece of silence swayed
the end of nature, we say
glibly, dead of tongue of harangue
humanity in chains
subjugated, bent to obfuscate
well-meaning crunch of any other tribe
death squadrons annihilate the senses
what mouth-to-mouth resuscitates the ghost of night
what are we living for?
what demon speaks in me to say
I want us all to die