PEPPER POT

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poem, poetry, satire, violence

PEPPER POT

take them
round the back

and take
them out

let me not
mince my words

they need to
go pepper-pot to
stop their bookless babbling

not their
fault, perhaps,
that they know
less theory
than Stone age Man

but
dangerous nonsense
not a thing

to
show mercy
let live

so heavy the dross
just a few staple phrases
must outweigh all
the best in humanity
stifle our
dexterity by
raising the
stakes to
gas-giant gravity

and then, the assumption,
that they are
spitting image

of God
(dumbed-down in intellect
and every cosmic capacity)

PIXEL

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Censorship, dissident, freedom of expression, human rights, poem, poem poetry political moral, poetry, satire, Torture

PIXEL

they took him
to the place of torture
which, as you have guessed,
was deep downstairs

there
they broke him like bread
with none
of the religious symbolism

or rather, they broke him
like a twig,
or rather,
they broke him in a way
for which we have no comparison
(no simple simile here
doing it poetic justice)

just scrambled his picture
at a whim, as is
laid down in the law

irony being, this all just a show
a display of power
power of
the artist
(this their deep bond, this
their deep affinity)

power to
change the world
redraw the landscape
pixel by pixel

IN THE END

IN THE END

it is
good what
disaster
does
to anger

a timely reminder
of how when
we rage to
kill, to
control, to
burn
to the ground

we are most ourselves
weak, human