a slap far-saw, that
any man
can and can’t warn: a
CRACK, as war can say and
law can’t.
all that bans lack, all statal bars scraps,
all blast-brawn and arms-clad
calm: an armada-sharp warrant
stalks, tracks, wants what can’t stand tall
bang
as a hawk saw: a blast, and—bang
half-mast. all flags flap astray.
all cart away, a carcass that
Can’t clap back. All stats cast.
That man’s had (can
lads wax “man”?) a mad war. mad.
A mass-marksman’s rampant gat-blasts:
Manhattan as Baghdad,
Harvard flashbacks and
glass-smash Sabbath. pray,
vandal,
and bang.
Heirlock Magazine 