Wednesday 19 August 2015

From Concentrate

On a new summer night
I received a tetrapak of love in a stairwell.
High in fructose,
expiry date: 2 months.

...

the sugar still messes up
my insulin.

Friday 14 August 2015

No True Scotsman

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/14/world/middleeast/isis-enshrines-a-theology-of-rape.html

...

Blood flows from
a slit verse; but

They are men who would 
interpret wrongly, who would
appeal to tradition.

And caged in between these lines lies
a girl;
her throat gagging
on herrings, her lips
staining them a garish crimson, but

We distance ourselves from false authority.

the language, you see, is beautiful
and obscure, like smiling
gasoline -

Is the fuel itself a sinner?

...

These fallacies are slippery:
there are believers, and then they are believers.