For 2011's National Poetry Writing Month (NaPoWriMo), Troy's Work Table is attempting to write thirty poems in thirty days without the help of writing prompts from other websites.
Many of these are still in some sort of draft stage, but that is the nature of the Work Table.
---
KILLER
We like to think ourselves modern
our problems unique and novel
the urge to kill as something recent
yet we forget our brother Cain
standing over Abel’s body
with its blood feeding the farmland
yet we forget the covetous caveman
with his polished bone club
striking his father’s teeth and temple
yet we forget the monsters
who have always roamed our forests
traveled the highways near and far
yet we forget the criminal soldier
sprung from the prison cell
to slaughter for sport rather than honor
and our battlefield inventions
machines of war and carnage
extensions of our vile words and hatred
while all I desire is a steady trigger finger.
---
Copyright © 2011 by Troy's Work Table
No comments:
Post a Comment