Break the Vessels

As day shatters into night
So there were pinpricks upon the universe
Then, holes in our theory
Time had a place and
There was finally a point, alpha and omega
And we were everywhere
And the God who was holding me hostage--
I told him to go home
in his fucking clown suit
as I wrestled down my brother for the kill and said
"We will have a second time over
but during this one
I will have to look into your eyes when I do it."
Our only conscience was ourselves.

Break the vessels
Open the portals to tormenting devils
Slack-mouthed preachers intoning in just the right wavelength for ceremonial brainwashing
In this ending, I still pull your gold teeth out for money
And piss on your partially incinerated corpse, it being attired only in hijab
But this time, there is no flag behind me, no army
No inflated sense of righteousness;
Just the proper amount of sense that we all made in the first place
To force us fully
To understand
Exactly how
We run,
Knock-kneed
To our petty, shit-covered death.

12/21/11