MONSTERS
WHERE MONSTERS DO LIVE
..then rising up again like funhouse figures,
and stripping the clothes from the dead and
seizing them up by the hair and passing their
blades about the skulls and snatching aloft
the bloody wigs, gutting the strange white torsos
and holding up great handfuls of viscera, and
genitals, some of the savages so slathered up with
gore they might have rolled in it like dogs and some
fell upon the dying and sodomized them with loud
cries to their fellows.
(Blood Meridian Cormac McCarthy 1985)
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The only other place such atrocities have been witnessed
has been in the play of children Extraordinary acts of
sadism beheadings burnings in baths +rapes Sex me
therapist I won’t tell anybody Too often mass executions
in the sandtray Tissue paper blood splattered on ponies
kittens +Pokemon
So much to do So little time the boy who loved Pikachu
sang Welcome to my nightmare the girl with greying teeth
+biker father said Thrown against the wall at 3 by Mom’s
new boyfriend named Cookie
Yesterday in American Honey a band of misplaced kids
led by Elvis Presley’s granddaughter Riley hopelessly make
their way across Donald’s kingdom Lord of the Flies-esque
except in urban wastelands Youthquake bacchanalia Post-
millennial debauchery
One cherubic neo-hippie baptizes herself in a river +though
we are told she cannot swim up she rises Dreadlocked Queen
of abject poverty Hopelessness crackles through the screen but
not louder than popcorn man behind us or some deviant in front
on the phone Too afraid to confront him lest he rear up on hind
legs
Baseball cap does not mask tips of red leathery ears Please allow
me to introduce myself We hunker down in plush seats My seat
mate determined to prove that we have witnessed an epiphany! But
then he takes the message of Christ quite literally
One cheek often bruised + bloodied Hope is God he has been known
to say as I cower waiting for the other shoe to drop If God is hope
temperament is destiny +all the children in therapy will live happily
ever after
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Muta Abana, the father of a released Chibok girl said: Some of them
came back with babies, but think about it, are we going to kill the
children? (Globe & Mail October 17 2016)
Fall 2016 22 days until Donald rules the land
songanddancegirl 