people talk of stumbling in
to armageddon
like it's some predetermined stop over
along a coastal highway to salvation
even if it brings a billion deaths
and the sinners' minds and hearts
are pitched upon a mountain
grotesque
like a pile of shoes in the holocaust museum
yet there will be those that say
we deserve it
but the abyss might be a state of mind
you need not be swallowed in
bury your swords and draw your blood for a line in this desert
a blockade of yucca plants
will grow and circle our tents
--- e b bortz
(published in The New People, March 2003)
(published in ArtCrimes #21, July 2006)
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