Long Poems About Agnes Torok

The pain from violence    
committed against you    
and your body    
will eventually end    
   
but only when you refrain from    
   
asphyxiating your poor pores    
with layers of toxic make-up    
   
grilling your hair into burnt    
curly fries with hot irons    
   
ripping pubes from crotch    
in barbaric fashion trend    
   
bleaching our sensitive    
little puckered friend    
the anus    
   
I assure you    
there are men and women    
and...

The so-called “Defence” Industry is a $1.8Trillion Dollar Industry.
Did you clock that?
1.8 trillion dollar’s worth of activity hell bent on destruction:
infrastructure, governments, agriculture, people’s houses, jobs.
Jobs? Don’t those in favour of the so-called “Defence Industry”
keep reminding us how many jobs are provided by the …  
… well let’s call a spade a spade … by the War Industry?
Have you ever thought how many jobs are destroyed by the War Industry,
how many livelihoods, self-employed, small-time farmers, shop-owners
small...