
I will tame blank pages
Like The Titanic tamed the iceberg
Like Kennedy tamed the bullet
Like The Challenger tamed the bonds of earth
I will tame blank pages
Like The Titanic tamed the iceberg
Like Kennedy tamed the bullet
Like The Challenger tamed the bonds of earth
At the high end shopping facility
Everything presents as a threat
The opulence surrounding
Imposes
The mannequins
Faceless
Grey menace
The Range Rovers harsh
Their halogens upon a blinded world
Footsteps which
Bear the weight
Of state violence
Fingers which know the touch
Of 911 dials
Antifa paranoias
Those who smile and wave to cops
Now we know who they’re willing
To slaughter
In untold number
To avoid the slightest inconvenience
1.
I empty thick harrows in muddy heaps
Plasticine and shadowed
There is no room for this face anymore.
2.
Pigments of hair
Rile in aisles
The thickness of manes
Carry worth
3.
What r u
Some sort of
Blank vector
Through which
All anxieties plunder?
4.
I am aether transpondent
5.
A yawn rises
It’s only 3am
You’re not allowed to sleep anymore
Not since the war
6.
There is no righteousness in your mercy
But you’re sanctimonious all the same.
Hunker down now
With the molecules
Don’t let them know the face you’re making
It’s getting too dark to taste the water
So find a new naked self
You’re not going to find a better guitar in this lifetime
So play like the sound is real
Envelope envelope
Walking till the hairs grow thin.
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The idea that somebody
Can commit suicide
By somebody else murdering them
Is a weird concept
Suicide by cop
Presupposes that
A cop is merely a force
Of nature
With no personal agency
Like gravity
Like gas
Like the ocean
A cop just kills
With as much culpability
As San Francisco Bay
You can’t indict the noose
You can’t convict the gun
The tool of the suicide
Is blameless