1.4.12

LOOK OUT



I don't know humans
from the stuttering
shells of machine guns

I don't know
soldiers from saints
I can't tell a razor blade

from an ink pen
I can't tell a gun shot from a kiss
I don't see the difference

between jackals and police men
or carnivals and prisons
shackles and tennis shoes

sidewalks and clouds
coffins and bath tubs
I see no distinction between

inhumation and orgasm
among boot heels hammer blows
orchestral music screaming

heart beats screaming
screaming thunder bolts
melt down laughter whispering

dreaming, I suspect no reason
to make a connection between
the aforementioned

as surely as I don't
know them
from you

2 comments:

shaun said...

~written in the mid-80's ... finished in 2012
sl

thorns said...

+ Final text correction by author today, Sunday February 2, 2014. I made sure to separate the double unhyphenated words with a proper space.
~sl