“I fail to feed your children I, mere stripling at-struggle with scree.” Up from the valley grass to the saddle … More
Category: war
Kosovo, 1999: Flowers have gone to children, every one
I forced did make the mountains a hard home for my children slender I forced on them such leaves and … More
jack, dog, speaks at the captain’s funeral
them heathen took you, my captain, yes you, my captain my commander, my every thing my only thing yes, you, … More
jack, dog, awakes (my sky fall down)
my sky collapsed like a continent my voice broke in that thin air before you up-seen, then carbine-down those … More
ISIS carpetbaggers gone-wild
Bag of: man-on-boy adultery, of brother-v-brother slaughter Scout-leader spread like goat-butter Tenderfoot tethered, belly-down Bag of Al-Sadr, of it is … More
Chattering like flustered magpies
Chattering like flustered magpies We slave for our supper Meet renowned thinkers Read of Stalin and Turks and Ottomans with … More
At this goat-fuck of a gallows
At this goat-fuck of a gallows, Preside prime-time vengeance Gassed kurds be damned With shit-stained korans Today we dispatch the … More
Sharia, Baklava
Sharia-to-go: All the justice she can affordAll the mercy afforded her the lash Render unto herThe exhaust, the cataract of … More
All these years, praying to the wrong rock? Doubt not the geometers of spiders and gods
Doubt not the geometers of spiders and gods They’ve directed us to the incorrect rock So we pray the … More
Welcome to the wood-chipper (ded to ZdlR)
Take your mayor w you Your pimps Your whores Your civil engineers Your baseball scores “Welcome to the wood-chipper” … More
Abandon. Azimuth. Now.
Take your mayor w you Your pimps Your whores Your professors Your baseball scores “Welcome to the wood-chipper” Same … More
My brother was killed tending his hives
Artillery among the apiaryBeekeeper become bullet-catcher
Mohammed’s maggots
Meddlers of the new mathMaggot distillersPockets filled with gum-drop gods, marked “Distribute to youth” smile, “Say cheese!” Alchemists of the … More
Oh, sure, your soldiers salted cicadas
Oh, sure, your soldiers salted cicadas As with our poppies Nonetheless We, scorpions We expect a yield
Cicadas n otro sacrifices
Oh, sure, you salted cicadasWe, scorpionsWe, expect a yield We harried hornets to hysterics to a blind hate We poisoned … More
Raised among pomegranates
We harry hornets to hystericsWe poison scorpions w their own eggsThis generation raised among pomegranates must die
Daughter yours, bolt-action god ours
The breech, the block, the betrothal Your sunless daughter Our bolt-action god What’s done is done Inshallah
You Hazari, you Herati, atonement awaits
You Hazari, you, Herati, you Kabuli, you Kandahari Open your city gates Acknowledge your sun-dried debt Atonement awaits: Glory to … More
Alibaba’s 3 asses
Come! My presidents Go! You kings Bring! Your platoon forty of thieves Free! Get! Put! Strap! Your riches Well! Upon … More
Yield thee a mantis of bother
We are hornets bred w scorpion genesHornet father, scorpion motherGuard your daughtersYield thee a mantis of bother
As you would any sparrow
Father You should kill me as you would any sparrow Bury me in your garden Daughter
Side effects might include human rights
Oh sure, Jerry, just populate Iraq w bankarotta, rabid, ronin …
OEF+OIF | Oh sure, Jerry, just populate Iraq w bankarotta, rabid, ronin …
Madrasa-mutton, seared
This madrasa-mutton, seared Swing Sleep Spin On skewers run-through
Like any poisoned goat
We shall excrete your brood Our haunches down Our knees bowed Our eyes screwed Like any colic mule Like any … More
Hair-dressers and daughters
We shunt them retarded cicadas Back Down To end their days With dying potatoes With sightless centipedes Hair-dressers and daughters … More
Daughters buried like dirty cicadas
Daughters forced underground like dirty cicadas
Alibaba’s atonement awaits
Atonement like colorless unpainted stripped sun-bleached dawn like daughter empty wordless awaits
Alibaba’s 9-volt brother
Remember the brother dismember: Up-ended him Suspended, w other wingèd mice Splayed against your nine-volt algae-green night Who forgot the … More
Alibaba’s cyclics, fire sale
Bring your night-visions for barter Sell your valkyries, rotor by rotor
Alibaba’s platoon 40 o thieves
Come! My presidents Go! As kings Bring! Your platoon 40 of thieves Strap! Your riches Well! Upon your albino asses
What kind of colonel is this … ? (The Twice-Death of Colonel Highlander)
Dreamskunk 200402270444 The Twice-Death of Colonel Highlander In Korea In the city, in seoul . . . under corrugated tin … More
The Highlander wuz Kurtz, Colonel, Commanding
My Colonel Kurtz’ was Colonel Highlander — a larger-than-life bull of an Infantry officer who was my battalion commander in … More