TRUTH Vigilante: Ew, Icky. How Gross?

Slapping Sound (working on)

I had a lover's quarrel with the world - Robert Frost

I'm sorry you got caught in the middle.

I had to slap your face
hard
so you would keep slapping back
harder
so I could subtract my ignorance from the inhumanity
and know the difference
how a catalyst sparks
something dead

already dead?

I slap any face
that will slap back defiantly, ignorantly
so I can feel inhumanity from those so evil
its unrealized their affect

what's dying
is not the soul but good people
fed to a machine grinding and burping
disgusted, disguising words in formulas
only a few programmers crudely understand

Hands much bigger, thicker
also love.


4.16.23

tax deadline extensions and other things to dread

I forget I used to title a collection (unwritten) after one poem ignorantly implies a theme


I learned I could be a menace without trying. I'd get sucker punched, called out and humilated for something only based in ignorance. So, I made a game of it. You hit me, I hit back. I hit you, you hit me. When people stopped taking swings at a monster, I felt unloved. That hurt worse. So, I veil my attacks. They don't know they've responded. If I gather nothing but silence, I just adjust my approach.

I assume. This is conjecture, theory, to explain what I want to believe or embellish to make the computations for life have some statistical merit.