Nothing Gentle Will Remain

By CAConrad
            freeze frame before
            dinosaur grabs him
            story from a blind
        dog's perspective is
            the movie I'm
            waiting to see
            white man with
         bible in hand is how
            the unluckiest
            stories begin
things are always worse than we
     allow ourselves to realize
      it's too much to admit
        this planet is a nazi
        you must kill to
        survive you have
      to strike them down
      from lettuce to cows
        villainous planet
        freeze us burn us
        melt the ice but
        do get on with it
        dropping sugar
        just dropping it
      everywhere in here
      many more faces to
      make vanish to keep
      fueling the day fueling
      the day fueling the day
      Placenta Jr. tell them
      whatever flavor you
      want because I have
        a gun and they
        left theirs
         at home

Copyright Credit: CAConrad, "Nothing Gentle Will remain" from ecodeviance: (Soma)tics for the Future Wilderness.  Copyright © 2014 by CAConrad.  Reprinted by permission of Wave Books.
Source: ecodeviance: (Soma)tics for the Future Wilderness (Wave Books, 2014)