Saturday, December 4, 2010

4/30

William Carlos Williams is going to rise from the grave and kill us all;
OR
This Feels Like Cheating

I have eaten
the brains
that were in
your head

and which
you were probably
using
to live

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so warm

1 comment:

  1. 4/30 - Untitled - Part I

    Our Father who art in heaven,
    during the emptiest of days,
    dark cascades over our fields.
    Blades of grass cry themselves
    to suicides, praying to be thorn crowns,
    Their bodies are crushed under
    these possessed men.

    I have never sinned,
    but last night, when the bullet
    spun madness out of Mary,
    I cursed you, tongue bleeding
    with every offense, spilling my
    self onto the floor,
    hollowed be my name,
    now gutted of scripture and hymn.

    Thy kingdom come,
    in droves, a slow death on
    the horizon, life asleep in
    its gaze, hunger screaming
    from a tundra of stomachs.

    When the low growls found
    ways into our streets
    I gave the boys weapons,
    told them to pray after every shot,
    that we were doing God's work,
    but my faith is a lover
    lifeless in the kitchen.
    Lord, when did mortals
    become tattered bibles?

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