Monday, September 7, 2009

theoretically, from the distance, knowing nothing

so easy, so familiar
pulling back a practiced finger
and the action playing
tiny and so far away
hardly feels like murder

the cries? we've heard these cries before
coming out of our own mouths--
nothing anyone would pay attention to
and we've been dead a long time
to anything but anger

still, we'd take it all back
for pizza and a night at home...

3 comments:

farmlady said...

I'm not sure I understand. A video game? An ant? (No, one wouldn't hear the cries from a murdered ant.

I like the lines "..,so far away
hardly feels like murder." and "..., we've been dead a long time to anything but anger." Such a statement about our society.

castlewon said...

well, I was specifically thinking about the school shootings by 13 and 11 year old kids in Jonesboro, Ark. I was surmising with no justification...

farmlady said...

Oh, this has so much more impact now that I understand the premise. Now it makes sense.