Introduction: The poem wishes to subsume the most poignant acts of violence and death transcribed within a month. Through incantation, it singles out an individual: the neophyte of violence, who is also the half-innocent and half-guilty sacrificial lamb, a receptacle of significance whose life ends up meaningless, whose name is forgotten
Solo Passage
death the singular is not grand enough a theme
death you level ranges of mountains to rubble
a cacophony of trees of silenced caves
why sing of a lonely skin tent blown to the wind?
why strike a chord when death whole lives can sing you
sprawl and sheer death by the numbers? sole offering?
why inflict August violence upon all songs
to beat the sense out of a corpse? muse-sick? why not
dive for many pieces then string them in pierce this
your poor seeker through each of the drilled pearls? why not
a shell necklace from Tech Virginia gold bullet
bowl of Columbine? why not death by this climate
intemperate harsh in hushing down rain by heat earth
storm volcano? by sweet & lingering viral
love chicken sneeze cow schizophrenia striped
legs of the woman mosquito like pianos
that measure breath by beats? why not by the green hype
of a high jade-smoke hashish? by almond poison
a precision trickle from the mountain fortress
Alamut the center of assassin learning
the killing algebra? or by thuggee fine craft
of strangulation? by ninja cargo of steel
on kitten foot? why not stretch out to battlefields
or up twin towers wars of legitimacy
thus a son makes good the surnym saxe blue temper
creates him the sole member? or…
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