#1463 - killing the dead again

 

1463

5.2

2.i.24

killing the dead again

a Villonesque

 

‘we are this that’

they all say

 

the more you do

the harder they haunt

 

they come to us

but we are killing the dead again

what choice?

 

what an example they set!

be mindful!

 

they don’t feel a thing

we are doing it for them

we do it in their name

and again and again

 

we dare them from the tomb to die

to come to a grislier end

to re-live

give up the ghost and all that

 

it’s happening all over again

 

you have to have the stomach for this

killing the dead again

 

it’s whack-a-mole

they look you in the eye

 

they lock you in the zombie room

they don’t need light

where they’re from

which is nowhere

 

it’s a bloodrush

a buzz

 

we rend and we tear

 

need a bigger gun

a sharper knife

need more rope to hang the dead

 

bring yours out!

we’ll kill ‘em again

we don’t care how dead they are either

 

we vanish the absent

disappear the gone

 

we have all their property, everything

their whole wide world

 

there’s every sentiment we’ve stolen

 

if we dance at all

then it’s on their grave

 

it’s on them

 

they deserved it

and it’s only right

 

the dead are naturally ‘under erasure’

 

we will need poison gas

we will need bigger bombs

 

all that they ever made is laid waste

 

you can’t keep a good corpse down

 

it’s a duty

it’s how we’ll go on

 

so full of the past we all are

 

and they’re in my head again

it’s chess

it’s the infinitesimal

 

they come creeping after

they are all kinds of rot

they are ash for the garden

 

and this is the best we can do

 

we will be there soon

we’re getting there

it’s an everyday occurrence

 

it’s just who we are

 

and none of this kills death