Television

In Memorial to the dead in war, in hope we find a better way of seeing, some higher way of knowing.
One,
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TV's even 50 inches

reduce reality

tiny freeways

dropped

in between

trees

(aerial views)

do not convey

the inside of

the car whose

windows don..t open

in 85 degrees

not moving

stuck

like a

fly on paper

gulping air like a guppy

but

on

TV

they wind along surreal

like thread thru a needle

as you think 15 mins

early out the door is the thang

TV

is too small

2 removed

too sterile

they oughta paint war on yo wallz

in smell-a-vision, horror, bleeding and gasping,

reeking of desperation and death. Peopled w/ dying /dead/ dying

patriots/terrorist/peace-keepers/killers murdering in the name of

peace

which is off stage somewhere impatiently waiting for

justice, who is somewhere on vacation

The TV screen is too small to show me how to send my sons to

kill their sons so

their sons will have no more sons, while the mothers mourn the murdered ones

they gather together again in the womb of earth

to dust from dust

to study war no mo

truly, TV is too small

to tell me this

disconnected stills that move

pieces of a picture

cut off edges gobbled by lying mouths

edges running with blood that won't come off

we offer blood instead of rice pouring it into hungry mouths crying

never again, then rising to kill again, they fear more, so they kill more

so more fear walks in the night thinking of killing to ease fear so

sleep can come again, their nightmares are not in prime time

no lines of coffins or grotesque piles of appendages no faces for

the dead on tv, we watch in glade scented rooms removed unable to smell the copper and

sulfur lingering in the air, we blindly wait for depleted uranium death

to be left in our bathrooms and bedrooms but never on tv

the truth is asleep

somewhere off the screen

which is too small


WordSlanger

7/25/03