Tuesday, April 12, 2011

the Apocalypse as a universal Bread and Circuses

God atop a throne

licking chicken bone

and saved souls like a headpiece on His skull

a lop-sided crown of Creation

and the pride of an eternal fool

treacherous as His own creation

I am in the arena all tired and given up

waiting for a door to lift and unleash

my brethren beasts and the last sight of these eyes

that first in infancy saw a dangling bird mobile

and who clung to a squeaky rubber lamb

will be blood soaked incisors

and the disappearing sky


Content (c) 2008-2011 Philip Milito.

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