1:
what happens to a society
when mystery is labeled
as evil?
it yields an ever-connected chain
of false labels and misinterpretations
the indigenous are labeled
as savage terorists
and plotted against
the open-hearted
are manipulated into slavery
the vulnerable are penetrated
by force of law
citizens
where is your allegiance?
why do you pledge
with a covered heart
when it needs to be opened?
why do you bear arms
with balled fists
and closed palms?
why do you call yourself
a patriot (pater: fr. Latin.meaning father)
when your greatest love has always been
for your mother?
this loaded phallus
has becum
the prevailing metaphor
of the day
you’ve spent your chi
on cheap versions
of the virgin
you’ve worshipped
loopholes in a story
and war shipped
mythic men to glory
if in god’s image
then your god’s
a plastic surgeon
a tyrannic dictator
a coward behind a curtain
with a megaphone
an aging oil tycoon
on viagra
ramming his plow
into the earth
turning up disease
and disaster
out of an ever-drying womb
you will become her cyclical sacrament
menstrual minstrels
footing your own bill
of right left right
marching blindly
into a moonless night
another dimension
where children use chalk
on the sidewalk
tracing their bodies
for the precriminal investigation:
of their paternal inheritance:
murder!
men in uniform
take note
[excerpt from , said the shotgun to the head by saul williams]
Amanda Cellini 