Kavya, My Poetry - 9. It is necessary to see death

It is necessary to see death

It is necessary to see death, stark naked, lurid and wild,
Death as it pisses in the dark alleyways drunk and ecstatic on the jumps of drugs
that are hard to name and harder to pronounce, it is still necessary to see death face to face.
In a breach of society sanctioned lucidity hardwired in our brain,
It is still very necessary to see death,
To see the violent vandalism of civilization,
Of ashes and nuclear death of atoms and atom bombs,
Billions of flashlights burning up the sky,
Smell of rotten carcass evaporating in sterile perfume of laboratory engineered poisons,
Gases and liquids and solid whites of the eyes of the dead and the suffering of millions upon millions
of innocence of ruthless greed of narcissist wankers.
It is necessary to see death as it is, for the spring of flowers is nearly over and now we make war.

02/09/2013