3.
Thomas Edison electrocutes the elephant
and the rest becomes history. Someone
somewhere gets contracted to direct a
Red Lobster commercial. Tens of thousands
of airplanes filled right now with compliant
mortgage borrowers.
Waking up at 5:00 pm in the sun not
knowing where you are. These series of
realizations: ocean waves are the pulse
of the Earth; the universe does not need
smiling children; there’s no use.
2.
How do you love the neighbor with
the viscous barking dog and the don’t tread-on-me
rattlesnake flag while
paying insurance rates for two trucks?
Answer: you don’t.
Patriarchs honor their mothers on rear
bumpers & death machines: all bombs
are motherless down to the last
exploding coil. Miss Enola Gay jumps
off a cliff, Easter Sunday, 1991.
1.
The colleges were full of future conmen
and thieves. The professors were all blood
killers obedient as falling rain. The pastor
had a mortgage and the landlord too—
rentchecks got paid and sure as the sun
casts a shadow the armies are rife with
rapists.
a final prayer:
(in unison)
This is how it works.
This is how it works.
This is how it works.
Bombs away!
