Wednesday, January 11, 2012

killing machines

bulls being butchered
in the abattoir
at 300 an hour
not quiet dead yet
butchers go back
at night to violent videos
whatever...

hunters hunt their prey
cut throats with knives
or machetes
for fun or just because
is it a game or what?

hangmen see and smell
their duty
electric chair or needle?
which is faster?
the smell of the charred flesh
the nostrils picks it up

military forces root
men to kill
dehumanizing their prey
what do the killing
young machines feel -
the first one
a man like you
alive and then gone -
gunning a whole village
mutant - mensch
no more
dreams thoughts
haunt until

on reading Killing
by Jeff Sparrow

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