I start out
as usual,
somewhere in the middle;
waving,
holding up
long standards
that wind, like blood-red carpets
to your door.
the taxonomy of being
cannot hold me back
from the hypocrisy
of counter-diction;
black mass
in other words
cannot tell you
of the tangible verse
of the machine gun,
the poetry of the hand grenade.
through rows of words
I listen to the morning siren,
elongated behind the police car,
dragged by its coat-tails
saying
innocent innocent
there is no safety in numbers;
but when the green light
comes on
I feel snug,
for my uncanny ability
to produce heat.
I start as usual,
but the layout is wrong:
above, a mason symbolic lies;
the sickening ubiquity
of the HI-LITER anagram,
the terrible beauty
of the "Horst Wessel Lied"
morality drops in curling petals,
avoiding gods and angels in its way;
and you will never know
whether I was touching the
evening grass,
or just wiping my hands.