Tuesday, February 22, 2022

the hanging man

 

or the necklaces made of

fingerbones that our children wear,

or the oceans of violent blood

they drown in

 

the hollow prayers of shadow kings,

and that there’s no time to

waste here

 

gotta kill all these tired gods

before they kill you

 

gotta fuck the best and burn the rest and

do you remember tulsa 1921?

 

are you nostalgic for birmingham

in the spring of ’63?

 

you can either be your father or you

can grow up but

a nation of mad dogs is just

another war waiting to happen

 

any whore who claims to hold

absolute power

can only ever be your enemy

 

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