It Simply Never Occurred to Your Nightmareless Mind

Jeff,

Rule

Number

One:

Don't

explain

Nothing

fucks

my

judgment

up

more

about

something

I

write

than

something

I

write

getting

thousands

instead

of

dozens

of

hits,

in

this

case

Napoleon's

death

announcement.

I

deleted

the

poem

below

this

one

from

yesterdays'

BLCKDGRD

post,

for

the

record

I

like

the

poem

below

Installed

static

in

its

place

Against human exceptionalism
A few more spurts of logic's holy water
American hypocrisy on war crimes!
American propaganda and Ukraine war
Here's to militant apathy					Apathy is a disease, I was once told
You lost, stop acting like you won
If Trump still potus scotus would leave Roe alone?
Capitalism has always wanted to control women's bodies
Ohio law mandates rape victims send thank you notes for gift of parenthood
How the Kent State massacre raised your tuition
Lost in the supermarket
Murname's *Last Letter to a Reader*
Richard Thompson interview

I

made

the

necessary

cameo

at

the

goodbye

event

for

my

boss

who

(

never

worked

here

once

she

walked

out

the

door

)

My

not

savored

anger

pisses

in

my

marinating

fuck

it

fuck

this

fuck

me

ON THE DEATH OF A CAT

Franz Wright

In life, death

was nothing

to you: I am

willing to wager
my soul that it
simply never occurred

to your nightmareless
mind, while sleep
was everything

(see it raised
to an infinite
power and perfection)—no death

in you then, so now
how even less. Dear stealth
of innocence

licked polished
to an evil
lustre, little

milk fang, whiskered
night
friend—

go