Entertainment

I don't know where you live

so I cannot know how many people

suffered a violent death last month

in your town, your city, your county

too many, that's for sure:

Woe, despair, emptiness, helplessness, trauma

What I hope is:

not as many as on your Television last night

humiliated and tortured

killed and run-over

shot, murdered, exploded

stabbed, drowned, poisoned

It is called entertainment

and I will never get my head around it

this blind spot without transfer:

while the ad-break promises luxury and beauty

we go get snack and drink

and the killing may continue

I have been sitting for five minutes

staring at the empty white space where these words now appear

listening to the blood-rush in my ears

All I can say is:

I dearly wish every being the chance and right

to approach and pass the threshold

in a dignified, peaceful, quiet and fearless way

and to be gracefully entertained

in the radiant parlor of the great truth