Popular Poems About Violence

There's a man standing on a bench in a public park
He's pointing at people and laughing and screaming shit at them
The people walk by and don't pay any attention to him
They figure he's just some crazy motherfucker and they should keep the fuck away from him
The man pulls his hat off and starts ripping out large hunks of his hair and eating it
As he screams, hunks of hair mixed with spit fall out of his mouth and stick to his face
He pulls a knife out of his pocket and saws off one of his ears
He eats the ear
A moment later, he does the same to the...

For those I hate
Fucking hell
Beneath the skin
An open wound
Thirsty for blood
Hunger for flesh
Scattered carnage
Wriggling torsos
Pungent, infested disease
Brain candy for dessert
Vomiting repugnance
To die again

..  
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
I am   
the Salt of the Earth,  
   
an unfinished business-  
   
that home sweet grind  
to no.where  
on the beckoning shine  
   
asleep at the wheel  
to that city on the hill,  
   
personal space  
for drippin' dimes  
and slippin' time...  
   
a seam in the rearview  
beams pristine,  
spiderweb cracks  
in a sidelong dream-  
   
where unscrupulous    
members feed   ...

April 26

I’ve never been gripped by such fear while making love.This last weekend was long and filled with rough sex in my apartment.. Mike's touch is harsh, demanding. The one time I said, "I love you," Mike must have sensed the fear in my voice. He only smiled  slightly at the words and then said, “Well prove it,” leading my hand to his crotch. My heart raced…with desires, but also terror. I’ve been with many men but never one who seems so harsh at his core.

His past haunts our present. When I touch him, I sense the ghosts of those he's left behind. Am I...

same
soil

for your heaven collapsing
mother reduced

of a genocide
homicide, matricide

in que
and of the same womb

for a deicide
ecocide, infanticide

the same pulse

commiting
androcide
biocide, dominicide.

all the same heartbreak
all the same soil

with so many different words
for murder

and only one

for love