"SIR! How do we silence anxiety? Sir."
Welcome to the new era,
A-dread-alized Motivation
We Swept concrete
under bombshelter rugs
Wept skyscraper scaffolding
Twin tears down construction worker cheekbones.
Dangling off plywood
Staring at their lunchmeat
In silliphane
Placing it back
Closing their eyes
The sun rise past the construction
Shone red and yellow
Orange and black
War in the winds
We all knew that there could be only one thing to silence the Trembling fingers
still left shaking
from the resurrection
of our ancesters sins.
The uncertainty of our nationalism,
or ability to breathe. A tragedy
to bond us. Glued
to the severance of anxiety horizens.
"The New Era"
Stapled to the door frame.
Green now in the sky
They painted the missiles gold
so we'd know who sent them.
Waves came
Tore cartilage from the floor boards.
Fires came
Swept veins up in the smoke
a plague would have come,
but the world glazed over with laughter.
labeled allergies a
coping mechanism
in the face of cataclysm
We swore at each other
Didn't blame god.
For once
This time we didn't want to curse
gods name that way.
Not when we knew our aggressor
The rich had bombshelter elbows
The beautiful had lips like
plane tickets
You stand accused of revolution
Influence,
motivation, rebellion!
PAYING ATTENTION
What do you have to say for yourself?
Says Judge Judy.
to the artists.
All of them.
Shackled in front of ovens,
Brothers and Sisters of rainbow skin
Motivators aren't needed when you're "Silencing Anxiety" She says.
A general in the white house asks:
"They're all too loud.
How do we unleash genocide
for a whole generation?"
And this *******,
Gaunt in the corner?
Says suicide.
