Fucked from the get-go.
posted by jeremy on August 20, 2006
That is how we stand now.
Upstream, it never welcomes but repels.
Pushes against you, taking you back to where you were.
Where we were... Where have always been.
The man, a customer of mine, found the dark eye
of a fully automatic rifle leveled
at his face outside of my bar
tonite.
He gave over what he had & continued to breathe.
I hate these men who stripe our lives with threat,
set the jagged tone of menace & fear of twilight solitary streets.
I find that I would kill them if I could catch them...
I would kill them easy, kill them slow, render them ultimately harmless.
Threatening the lucky splendor, the fucking singular majesty
of our lives, our goddamn only lives, over pocket change & cellphones...
