Full Foreground

Impulse in the great organism of terror

29 Impulse in the great organism of terror whether with bombing that led to throngs in flight from the sirens in light of global command who at the helm on account of what strife means or survival and so liable of the same murderous effect as compared alone when I want this to deaden a kind of blight in my head sister the missing lips of a mystified rhetoric or the paranoid moans about cultural connections that do not exist foreseeable order of disclosure if a generation still reigned in a state of sense and sound I object your honor made plain and on what grounds have you any right on behalf of the massacred when the last word’s a promise barely stomached between equal-signs or the end-rhymes of a sonnet describing the link between modern commerce and empire social category of race by means to 30 govern our colonial reaches with medicine and higher learning family and God overarching in ways enjoyed as homeless tongues and twitches exacted by teeth so close I’m all over my phobic throat and chest around a windpipe in upper body panic by a figure this Milosevic with war crimes semblance of blame that of nato’s rejoinder to the ethnic cleansing a life and purpose of its own intellect severed from a body wrong in specimens of flesh and branches under those I was ordered to sleep all probe and tentacle a troubled fit when no one visits in the interest of opacity or the last resort a prayer that goes like this so listen terminus unburden our improvident fruit of all other riches; umbrage, temper this stray unsobered will the cold touch of the given mother-of-pearl levigate our gash kinship—notch or hollow compelled forever to my hispid thighs and maternal treble 31 DUMP DITCH KIND ...