came the assassins

Came the assassins on the eve

of the world’s whimpering end

it was riding a star-crossed manifold

with unfinished business stamped across

the faceless bovine nation

who shook their meaty fists

at a coalsmudged empyrean

 

Came the humanity as a faltering memory

an imp shadow, immeasurable error

as antimatter, a snake eating its own throat

Inverted under the weight,

the collective horror of its undoing

 

An exhortation from hypocrite pulpits,

Shouted in symbols and archaic tongue,

audible from the shell-pocked balustrades

And poised to leap from the minarets

as folly and entertainment

Those citizens with black mirrors aloft,

transfixed and demanding recognition

wasted on hungry eyes en masse

about who was carrying the most prolific sign

who had the wittiest meme

or whose pixelated

moment got

the most likes

 

Came the assassins on all fours,

drooling and thirsty

pirouetting in folly,

Jaws agape in anticipation

For a new lease on hallowed land

Knuckles curated on the hottop

Sneering   & gnashing steely grins

portending supplication

for absent omnipresent overlords

bathed in Narcissus’s steely gaze

 

Progeny of the wrong race, creed and color

abused, ignored and starved

ancestors afflicted

“forgive us our trespasses” a lie

on the lips of suicidal choirboys

sodomized and speechless

under crumbling steeples

where Popes on ropes

dangled aloft prancing nuns

where puppet Aryan Pigmen

raised their guns high

with their dog whistles blaring

henchmen goose stepping

unto the great unknown

the feast of fear

responsible for the

whole abattoir charade.

 

Came the assassins,

ululating their childhood demons
in the elevator door

Demanding respect, attention,

some common fucking decency

Came the accidental assassins

Setting upon the Catholic catcaller

basketball captain

butt buster

beer chugger

cockswinging freeballer

breathing his preternatural Supreme fire

sneering lifeblood defiance and denial

for his rapeking and savior

with the afterbirth

entrails and placenta of victims not yet born

dripping in mucosa rivulets

onto the earth’s fisheye

birdseye

pigstye

firefly

sham and

shadow.

–Summer 2018