A is for apathy
Om mani peme
Hung you’d mutter
Push back against
The pressure of
Reality (Wallace Stevens)
At least make
Obstacles of sound
To defeat sound
(This morning saws
Shear the dovesong)
And I can’t
Push death away
Or the fascism
You prepared for
By using Signal
(An encrypted app)
I understand apathy
Is push back
Noise reducing headphones
Interfering with interference
Apathy’s active response
To grief to
Murder to misogyny
Stolid cemetery workers
Strip sod / stoic /
They’re older men
Who stop to
Watch traffic below
Like two statues
Shovels in hand
Before they resume
Hard labor for
The death industry
What got Mark
About Dachau was
How exquisitely beautiful
Was the surrounding
Landscape not what
My mother described
When she reported
Seeing corded piles
Of corpses on
Railroad cars men
In striped pajamas
I can see
Wanting to look
Only at one
Not the other
Guarding heart space
A photograph of
You at beach
With Selina smiling
Peaceful heart surf
Your aumakua bird
Forget what came
After / I cannot /
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