Niagara Part 3

Deep underground, where they keep the bombs
that explode like giant springtime blooms

Fragrant with half-life for hundreds of
years

I’ve seen so many of those on so many
screens

Over and over and over

Sodium Pentathol

Deep underground, like a Rottweiler

Since I was so young

Like a soldier

Identify yourself

Soldier

Killer.

There were more me’s

Than just me

So many me’s

Deep underground, deep inside

Comatose for months

Sodium Pentathol

Lysergic
acid diethylamide

And on a
loop I hear daddy’s voice

Tell me

I am boy

I am
killer

I am
soldier

Identify
yourself

Soldier

And take
it up the ass

Like a
Rottweiler

I told them I hated it

Herr Mengele

Daddy.

We pushed deep underground

World War Three

Be all you can be

Go! Go! Go!

And still I creep through these woods

And I scare the shit out of myself

I am killer

I am computer kid

I am Rottweiler

I am soldier

Identify yourself

Soldier

Sieg Heil

So you should fear me

I want that

Wrapped in black

Shadow and death are warm comfort

Illuminated by fragrant half-life blooms

Exploding like springtime

On so many screens

Meteor strike, enemy strike, sniper strike

Mommy, she sees nothing.

Mind Kontrolle

We were killer

We were Rottweiler

Do you know what I’ve done?

And
now, I’m done, again

I’m done

Cut loose

My road leads east

East to Niagara

Sodium Pentathol

It’s like a head-on collision

Amnesiac memory ripped like limbs and steel

Broken and bloody but free.

 

~ by yearzerowriters on August 29, 2011.

3 Responses to “Niagara Part 3”

  1. great piece, Cody. I really like this. To me, the poem is about the many dark sides of our selves…

  2. Cody this is great. So many echoes, allusions.

  3. the rhythm and repetition of incantation.
    This episode feels like when I went to a late night screening of Jacob’s Ladder when it first came out

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