22.05.25 (amended)

 22.05.25

Amuse-bouche Markt der Welt

warm over cold 

wailed out munitions 

the whole world

I have no idea what it would be like

for a poetry whose attitude 

of careful & defensive commitment 

to real lives of suffering 

& exploited individuals 

Fouettés into this poor neighbourhood 

so freely intensified

it will have a barely perceptible eminence

dynamised to lead by a branch

of Real Asceticists the language recovery 

your mouth slows to slow-moving

to feel a sense of real wholeness, 

of real completeness, of real peace? O

when you have it self-subtract 

from this line 

it's right in front of you 

only then can you begin 

to eat