Wetiko reprise

Imagining

a most silent star-spangled night in Sonora desert: cacti waking sleep

a mild rainy morning in a rocky Alaskan bay where seals play

a humid sunny Sumatra noon where palm-trees dip in shallow waters

ochre, cracking off hot sun-filled Jordan afternoon canyons

Banyan-fig roots lowering most slowly through early eve Kerala air

Lava, geyser, fumarole earth breath

deep-sea darkness, moss in misty tundra

sunset: a glacier in twilight

I shock your image-mind now

with the human capacity for

Rape, murder, torture and sadism

for treachery and humiliation and schizophrenia

for suicide, genocide and ecocide

The capacity to use speech to design words like

gas-chamber, nuclear waste, electric chair

Round-up, Napalm, Biological weapon

mutilating contact mine, hail of bombs

Why am I doing this?

I am doing this just to add a long breath

and state with you as a witness:

Sod off Wetiko!

You cancer-spreading curse of avarice and greed

of nameless faceless Power-over-demon

be you an evil spirit

or be you some kind of disease:

Sod off!

Fuck you!