NaPM April 10 2016

[just mercedes]

"Ceci n'est pas une guerre."*



This is a peace-keeping mission.
Straight lines, curves and angles
of destruction, weapons of
mass communication
primed and pointed
from the planet’s far side
at this framework of dross
and fires flowing.

The structure of matter
reflects awful symmetry;
straight lines, curves and angles
of canvas camps, forced migrations
while contemptuous thunderbolts
cruise the airwaves,
precise as scalpels.

Man strikes at the shadow.
Confused, blind, he kills and dies
locked together with his enemy;

himself.










"This war is not a war" - from "Ceci n'est pas un pipe" - This pipe is not a pipe - title of a painting of a pipe by Magritte.