War by Patrice Kayo

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Thunderous vapours!

water-spout with lion’s teeth


A trumpet sounds the end of things

with its scabby tongue


But no, but no

The forests and mountains are still calving

and in his velvety pot

God sleeps on his anvil


Tossing fate to the winds

gun at the ready

the Orphan man goes forth

with his thoughts on his nose


At the market where one grinds one’s teeth

stamp

lacerate yourself

We have ground our teeth

stamped

and lacerated ourselves

And it was our destiny.


For the altar of expiation

we would be the incense

and awaken God from his coma

Let him abolish us

And begin his creation afresh

Let him shatter science

extinguish the embers

And plunge us again in the sweetness

of innocent day.


For man if you pass

from God’s vassal to his equal

and if upon the scaffold

You decapitate death

the new God

You would still be no less monstrous.

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