the impossibility

the impossibility
of even just the valve
of even just the flag
of even just to spell
and to signify
how am I gonna make you understand

I wanted the oath and I wanted
to do battle with time
no that's a lie
I rejected both
yes I do
no I don't

faced down in the field
a sandy field
leavened with dead birds
and dead worms
and a dead wood
and ash
and dead oaks

and they put a firing range back in there instead
and all the victims were deranged and depraved
but their masters made them that way
or maybe no
maybe they were good

I get so mad and vociferous
at you innocents
I am an angry sloth

I will see you
in

hell