Every time I shut my eyes I see the same blood washed visage
\nBabies whose skulls have been crushed by Mother\u2019s maul
\nVagrants torn and dead in the street
\nJagged bits of glass glinting in exposed neck ligaments
\nOld ladies pushed down stairs until their bodies become an unrecognizable old mess
\nQuivering on the landing
\nDrug dealers shot in filthy alleys where garbage from the paleolithic era still reeks quietly
\nMy eyes squeeze shut hard as iron gates yet no tears come
\nOnly a grim sort of desert sand forms in the corners and gums up the works
\nI finally shoot from bed and endlessly pace the house
\nPassing works of art and books of poetry
\nThat shall one day lay in ruin too
\nMy anger bubbling and stinking and fogging the air
\nHow did this happen?
\nThe obesity of the world stretching the thin tenets of civilization to the point where its
\nPermeable to every bad idea that ever was
\nEveryone\u2019s opinion laughs from the brain box about how wonderful it all is
\nEchoing off of the empty words booming from the stereo inside a lowered truck that
\nSits painfully on the hot night asphalt outside
\nChika-chika chicka-chicka chicka-chicka chicka-chicka chicka-chicka chicka-chicka
\nThe Ghettobird awful close for this slice of paradise
\nWhy can\u2019t the poor stay in their trenches of shit where they belong instead of spilling out
\nInto the graffiti bourne sidewalks
\n\u201cListen children to the story that was written long ago..\u2019bout a kingdom on a mountain and the valley far below…\u201d
\nWar is all that is real
\nWake up and see it for once
\nWithout it the periods of peace would be nothing
\nThe Devil is not about sex or sugar or finality
\nThe Devil is murder
\nThe Devil is the spirit of man
\nThe Devil is the Judge rose bald and gleaming from the brimstone laughing and dancing and
\nPlaying the violin
\nHanging babies in trees is as easy as walking head-high through a green park
\nThis fat reality TV land shimmers on my distance
\nA mirage of nothingness against the truth of death
\nKnow death
\nEmbrace it
\nTaste it
\nFind it
\nMind it
\nIt\u2019s coming
\nWhat did you do? Did you survive a battle?
\nBlood streaked and pissed and more importantly did you understand love?
\nWar is love
\nIt is
\nAnd that is truth too
\nLove your neighbor
\nLest you raise the axe and cleave him twain
\nLove your children
\nLest you tie rocks to their limbs and pitch them in dark water
\nLove your wife
\nLest you murder her out of spite for her beauty
\nStay at war
\nNothing meaningful was ever peaceful
\nCheap or easy.<\/p>\n
\u00a92012 Harry Fagel for Cormac McCarthy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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