bellum

bellum

A Poem by h d e rushin

We
should rid the world of bridge jumpers;
late in life opsimathy. Low testosterone.
interventions with those of mismatching needle pricks.
When children want to run away, let them.

when the intelligentsia wants your underwear,
guide them, as a good scientist, into the room
where your girdles are locked like metal foil.

Poor stranglers; looking endlessly for rope enough.
It's sad when loved ones find out, that the lore
of demons you fought are still loose on the earth

seeping into our drinks. Uninvite the priest,
Duplantis in his new airplane bound not
by disposition. Slope his head with the hardest stone.

Spoil the coroner with soup and sweet California wine.
Bring OJ the antecedent: "Nicole saw Ron and called to him".
Look deep into his eyes; his sacred text for any beauty.

Pull out his tongue . His pathos.

© 2018 h d e rushin


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'bellum' an apt title indeed.

Impossible of course to cleanse the world as one would wish. Our species is forever cursed with that aberrant warlike gene our maker accidentally (it must have been an accident, must it not?) stirred into the soup.

'Bellum omnium contra omnes' and all that, (and forever.)

Beccy.

Posted 5 Years Ago


h d e rushin

5 Years Ago

so true my love......and with a little one entering manhood, and middle school, where both internal .. read more

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detroit, MI



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