the fossil record

As Breaking That Can't Hurt

Or physical grasping tongue in retrained hands with:

-A long rope wondering if it wants to be a noose.

-Perpetual sight striking a match of quartered thigh.

-Symbolically all breasts if not a duck's bill.

-Jack the knife cutting directly to the chase.

-Spot remover longing to be a fabric analysis.

-The dental x-rays of a mutilated metropolis.

-The sharp scent of a guilty verdict.

-Speech, insisting on a video-recorded testimony.

-Aimed wildly a loose anthem media sport firing.

-Billboards whose sole purpose did promote crime.

-The dusted fingerprint of a severed thumb.

-Then handed her the still-smoking revolver.

Maurice Oliver