For Teen-Age Boys Murdered in Texas: The Refusal to Dramatize Bloodlust
This once we will vanquish violence,
stake the heart & cross
the spirit's path
so it won't rise, that godawful
gorge hot & grainy
moving against the constricted throat
This once we will forgo
theater (that's
tribute from a poet,
ask Dickey or Bly)
I tell you
27 children is reason enough
to burn certain books,
go outside,
see how the sky looks
when day breaks thru
O creeping mist of the midnight unspeakable, lie
still upon the lilies & dissolve
stake the heart & cross
the spirit's path
so it won't rise, that godawful
gorge hot & grainy
moving against the constricted throat
This once we will forgo
theater (that's
tribute from a poet,
ask Dickey or Bly)
I tell you
27 children is reason enough
to burn certain books,
go outside,
see how the sky looks
when day breaks thru
O creeping mist of the midnight unspeakable, lie
still upon the lilies & dissolve
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