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.

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