we invented phonetic symbols
as an anaesthetic
trying to close our eyes
when told we had to see the horrors
perpetrated by others,
these symbols, compounded into
words act as an anaesthetic
protecting us from seeing the actual
horrors perpetrated by others -
we don't want to see them,
we don't want to see them!
a broken hoover dam, a waiting
tsunami of expression using
this medium concerns our sensitivity
of what's happening really,
and we write to the point of excesses
unfathomable, because we need to,
because we feel the need to be addicted
to opiates laid bare before death in a
hospital bed; these symbols are the
anaesthetic to images happening elsewhere,
they are the thieves of all other addictions,
and unlike the l.s.d. invoker,
we take these anaesthetic pills to block
out images taking place in synchronised fashion,
it's not cowardice: for whom the pleasant experience
of another's unpleasant moan?
we use these symbols to doubly revoke
the need to see images of torture,
then let us become ultra if not overtly pedantic
with these symbols, that we might not see:
'first they slashed his ***** with a blade
and leant on his bladder to force him to urinate
in agony; then they administered electric shocks;
he was hanged upside down for stretches of 5 hours;
his gut was slit open, his intestines tugged out
and laid before him, then re-introduced into
the body, crudely stitched up';
this is the everyday syria... you really want to see
that, or see the pacified encoding of such events
with utterances of anti-mimic behaviour?