naming adolescent holocausts, he performed
the male sin ritual unbinding
phylacteries and lovers
in terminal departures the tyrant
limped on nomad swollen feet
and entered his casualties. He opened
a worn rucksack slashed with words
of authority and pride. He unwrapped
his vademecum hidden
in winter clothes. Pocket
change shook as he escaped (all
change rattles in conflict) with one
strap rent the other flagging
dashed savings he
to cleave light. Wavering
as blistered feet lift trails of fire
armed only with occluding words
of aging poets and an extra pair
of sturdy boots, in light
of future terrain. He stripped lard
relations to bone to vagabond -
Unthatch the roof of self-sustenance!
O wandering roguechild shunning Morality
and Reason grasping a birthrite robbed
from your land. You scaled the breaking wave
by request. They vowed to leave
the word in transgression, piercing
the plexus circumference, ripping
the womb of neon lights
startling incantations
JDK, GLP4.
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