War

[J Hillenburg]

War






I am War,

the raw open-throated blues shout of Mars,

the commander of desolation scorched earth policies,

the roar of cannon, the rumble of armor,

Industrial Atomic Ages, imperative of nations, the patriotic cry,

siege-bringer to cities, destroyer of culture,

the blood-coup of tyrants, the click of flint,

black honor of God, racial quagmire, eight o’clock movie on Channel Four,

versifier of doom and night, final solution, murderer of millions,

death-rattle of innocence, aberration of ages,

the dark night of the soul, the flash of the bullet,

I am War.


I am War,

mental demon emotional monster envelope of disease harbinger of distortions

anonymous telephone call minister of propaganda contusion of villainy

heated argument conductor of blood-tones possessed war machine ignorant roar of cinder

great equalizer of races assembly of fog monster dictator waxen canvas of death-color

river of woe chaotic conflict hatemonger of masses molester of children

destroyer of families wellspring of fire stillbirth hieroglyph of centuries

influenced obsession unremitting greed empty bed gasoline comfort uniform of skulls

scripture of truth sexual innuendo certain failure betrayal of life liberator of history

hysterical automobile undercurrent of blind fear devil of vagina and breast.

I am War.


Kerouac blighted hemorrhage induced alcoholic death

I am War

Delmore poisonous water unidentified for days in morgue

I am War

Cobain junk ridden shattered skull I love you I love you

I am War

Hemingway shotgun in mouth Muse deserted finally

I am War

D. Thomas in alcoholic White Horse tavern coma

I am War

Morrison heart-attack Parisian heroin bathtub

I am War

Ginsberg Dharma visage liver consumed all ashes

I am War

Fitzgerald Gatsby Hollywood libations the poor sonofabitch

I am War

Faulkner great wall of oblivion gaunt fearsome corn whiskey shadow

I am War

Crane possessed scattered throughout Mexican sea

I am War

Burroughs junk junk Evil Spirit virus Western Lands

I am War

Cassidy tequila speed downer railroad eternity

I am War

Nietzsche spinal stroked syphilitic disintegration

I am War

Williams aged bottle-cap dope seizure haze

I am War

Chandler alcohol alone with memory of love dead

I am War

Berryman recovery final Dream Song in plunge from bridge

I am War

Kafka demon demon demon demon shout

I am War

Keats tubercular angel living hand of sorrow poesy

I am War

Lowry infernal machine intoxicated in the dreadful city

I am War

Rimbaud art forsaken slaves bullet-shot in alley

I am War

Wayne eighty proof furies stumbling through every night

I am War

Molly body shattered by crash alcohol bleary

I am War

K orgies highway past and future indistinguishable

I am War

Jeremiah anger anger children bewildered in room of life

I am War

Brad daughter left behind winter jails floods of beer and argument

I am War

Zo pained vodka collapsed on railroad tracks in a state of existence

I am War

Denise crack death-wish anonymous sex unconscious in motherhood

I am War

Robbie death-travel endless motion smell of tobacco and failure

I am War

Mike sleeping in vans bicycles whiskey wet-brain endless journeys

I am War

What comes around goes around

I am War

What comes around goes around

I am War

What comes around goes around

I am War.