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Earth what to do with us usepatrol living sanctuary the campus of resistancecops are employed by the state to serve some us that can’t beseen the us of houses of epistemological space intrinsic political organizationcamped out by the domestic policycrying into the glasswhile discussing this project of the worldthey think like moneyand use us finalitydegrade the missionthis fucking mattersas does here-ness over and againhere carnage + primal scenehow disaster melds with body ecologyforms of rebellion the body takescops don’t sense the dialoguelocked into cue from deep state mandateour state of mind—psychotopologicaleach cop an accessory of violent intentioncolonizing with automatic weaponsmaking here incapable of love, hopeand transformational resistance
sprawling carceral statebody is a social apparatuslockdown inside and outtrapped in digital proliferationand heavy weaponrywe ate what was thrown away [End Page 153]
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Problematic payload contends curbsideforgone mild afternooncan’t get off the ground, has gone ballistica lawn with a pool and a pool all lawnskidney-shaped tryingcops on the law(n)s cops on the lawomission triangulatedhe points a weapon at kids, violates realityviolates all air with violenceviolates all beauty of an incommensurablemoment of lifea stance a descriptor a vagrant principleup against imprisonmenthush now in summer’s misty lightfrontally before the stop sign perishingdiametrically opposed in a holsterwith a semi-automatic firearmupon the lawns growing dissimilitudelike stripes to wear as pageantrya lawn of illegitimacies and genocidalcontainments in contentment’s wayharness the holster by the tree and sit on citizensrely on state violence to maintain a perfect lawncockamamie is an Americanism genericismlock-step ordered romanticas bullets unload into his backpastoral demographics are recordeddownloaded through a chain-linked fenceperimeter around the amphitheaterof crimes against humanity taintingevermore a similitude of protective coverand all allegiances in this time in this placesink hellishly underfraught so hard with asinine somersaultsof how to handlea summer’s situation [End Page 154]
Brenda Iijima’s most recent books of poetry include Early Linoleum (Counterpath Press, 2015) and Untimely Death Is Driven Out Beyond the Horizon (1913 Press, 2015). She lives in Brooklyn, New York, where she runs Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs.
