Hollow Tooth

by ahimsa timoteo bodhrán

Because you are distant from your god

you lay hands on guns, swear allegiance

to baptisms of blood. Because you speak

no longer your own languages, know not

how to welcome your own desire, you annihilate.

Because you dance for the dollar, hope to make it rain,

acids plague our oceans and hills burn houses down.

Soon only the liquid you can drink will be our blood,

and down it you will, I believe you believe

your wealth-health is more precious

than a non-fetal heart still beating.

Because you have resigned

yourself to an earth everdying, because you fear

dark masses mobilizing, because you believe everything

can be bought and sold, because you think

you can legislate out of existence everything

you think you are not, because you jerk off

to fantasies of apartheid, because you think South Africa

failed because it did not create a forever white hate state,

because you seek to erase history, human and of this earth,

because you cannot count past 6000,

you build space coffins to take all of us out with you,

use us for fuel to build your rockets aimed at

quickening a forever winter. Meal of munitions,

you would burn our bodies for fuel if you could.

You make Nazis blush. You are a plague

refusing inoculation. If only garlic

could end your curse.