It’s more than us, you,
the lungs kneeling in the street
submission and worship
those who love and loved you
the weight of your naked hearts
your past lives on loop
the death on loop
or your ghost passing hand to hand
through the Third Ward––
It’s auditions for the dream
and the nine minutes of fame
televised 24/7
diaphragms of the jury pool
silence, torture, and air hunger
summers in hell
fires in a developed world
America or Samaria
the law of retaliation
fear
drugs
love
violence
idols
lingo and
Minnesota
God and nature
the kids, the plague, the monuments
job-loss, debt, privacy, and expertise
gravity and speed of death
adrenaline and counterfeit presidents
how 20 becomes 25 million
underage testimony
yearbook dreams and crack-cocaine
the last 2000 years
punchlines and methamphetamines
those who collect corpses for resumés
presidents of the united states
Class and race
character and
ego
it’s not just you and the state and the body
it’s sledgehammers and altars a thousand miles away
my friends who reject
the cubism of courtrooms
their riptide of conclusions
me and the reader
innocence, evil
perception and
envy
ash and power…
