5 April 2024
25 June 2024
totum simul
the appalling, preposterous naivety
of arms manufacturers and
the constellations of actors beholden to them
always beholden, emboldened
with a place in this world that a bomb
or a bullet calls a graph
or a dollar with purely negative function
so what happens in Myanmar
or any civilised high school / home office
garage / in a crypt even vegans print weapons
to their bodies’ content
print? what sort of book is that?
how do you read it as it appears in your head
or your heart? and as for God, for seventy years
I asked the wrong answers and perjured myself
in obscurantism, I told lies
occult non sequitur nonsense about life
the universe and so on
until my legs were dumb with peripheral
anxiety the fear of numbness, the loss of
eloquence to go solar, to outrageously
outrun the imperium, this present death
increasingly accelerates the current
of my future, outruns my blighted life
and hooray for time, I rush toward death
as to my beginning because I’m the same
contingent skin warmed by sun cooled
by sea, cut by knife, smudged by life