Wednesday, April 18, 2018

Magdalena Ball #16 Pale Shards after Peter Boyle #4 Post Howard

Pale Shards 

agile, laissez-faire, free-market
coal gas oil: profit 
to the bottom line
is this a war

loyalty 
for your country’s sake
is this a country

pareto of unspoken
greed which proves everything
without question
swallows and swallows and 
no drips

money is always relative
a question of scale
when you struggle to exist, when every
breath is pulled in against the 
machine, the cage, pale ribbons

if I were the only person without a gun
in this violence
eyes focused like a weapon
the subtle motion of lips, cheeks, twitching
walking with difficulty through the snow

first there’s fear, the alien recoil
then recognition

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