ZERO-SUM GAME
Twice a day is not enough, once a month is far too much/the yellow teeth of commerce revealed
The broken bones, the shattered vows, the dying words, mispronounced, the moving tracks and arms of rusting steel
Collective memories franchised, the tissue pale, uncircumcised/maps altered to accord with transient truths
We await updated orders, watching episodes of “Hoarders" as the angels mate on prison roofs
I went to the prayer meeting by the stockyards in the sun, where mouths were filled with different grades of dirt
I went to the ethnic cleansing, drank a beer and watched them run, but all I got was this lousy t-shirt
Funnel clouds and funnel cakes, tunnel vision, squealing brakes, rendered flesh and discounts every day
The surgeon and the farmer’s daughter under ever-rising waters, hastily updating their resumes
From the sky: a burning mist; from the ground: a methane kiss/from stock footage: we all start to fade
But leave a trail of emulsion, a distant echoing compulsion, & motel paintings lined up like graves
Minerals and catalogues and regional ideologues/who importune in blood-stained khaki pants
In the warm, acidic waves, the eels mutate, the eels engage, while thyroids swell and start to dance
The sniper aims, his mercy rains, on stalled cars and burning trains, on ATMs that glisten in the night
On corpses’ hands still clutching phones, on fading ads for payday loans, on silhouettes and carriers of light
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