Impulse in the great organism of terror, whether with bombing
that led in throngs to flight from the sirens in light
of global command, who at the helm on account of what strife
means or survival and so liable of the same murderous effect as
compared alone when I want this to deaden the kind of blight
in my head.
Sister, the missing lips of a mystified rhetoric
or the paranoid moans about cultural connections
that do not exist, foreseeable order of disclosure
if a generation still reigned in a state of sense and sound.
I object, your honor, made plain on what grounds, and have you
any right on behalf of the massacre when
the last word's a promise barely stomached between equal-signs
or end-rhymes of a sonnet describing
the link between modern commerce and empire?
Social category of race by means to govern our colonial reaches
with medicine and higher learning, family
and God overreaching in ways enjoyed
as homeless tongues and twitches exacted by teeth so close.
I'm all over my phobic throat and chest
around a windpipe in upper body panic by a figure
this Milosevic with war crimes, semblance of blame,
that of NATO's rejoinder to the ethnic cleansing
of life and purpose of its own, intellect
severed from a body wrong in specimens of flesh and branches
under those.
I was ordered to sleep all probe and tentacle, a troubled fit
when no one visits in the interest of opacity
or the last resort a prayer that goes like this.
So listen.
Terminus, unburden our improvident fruit
of all other riches.
Umbridge, temper this stray, unsobered will
the cold touch of the given.
Mother-of-pearl, levigate our gash kinship, notch or hollow
compelled forever to my hispid thigh and maternal treble.