Friday, September 21, 2018

Untitled

Poem for the week -- "Untitled":

Dear Empire, I am confused each time I wake inside you.
      You invent addictions.  
Are you a high-end graveyard or a child?
      I see your children dragging their brains along.
      Why not a god who loves water and dancing
   instead of mirrors that recite your pretty features only?

You wear a different face to each atrocity.
You are un-unified and tangled.
      Are you just gluttony?
      Are you civilization’s slow grenade?

I am confused each time I’m swallowed by your doors.

-- Jesús Castillo