stuart z. perkoff - love is the silence - arras.net

2.
so much flesh: man & jackal
greedy feed ing
gutswelling glutting
snuffing snorting stuffing
faces into it
blood irrigates, grass
grows thick, cows
munch, the
rest is known
rot fertilizes, wheat
grows. steel
binds, the huge trains
bring touching
bring death
bring people
while he whose land it was
(must still
be)
is driven back by the stink
of decay. that was his
manna, those herds, those
shagged wise heads. meat his
unborn sons will cry for.
praying he has not committed
his gods to some evil thing
brooding over their own
deaths
his gods are warped
as his land is. the great
beasts his brothers his food
all bloat & belch & fat
& mean flesh of
furious futility