Ink Tea Stone Leaf

Too aesthetic
to be self-aware—one must
consider whether senses may subvert the matter

Untenable—
the second half-second the quarter-
sec before the rod cracks the base of the skull

The illustration 
of the Great Man shall bow his head
in shame—your thirst for narrative is satisfied

The little rabbit
is made example of today—
see he quivers dying in the demonstration

Read confessions
in the back pages of books—stories
buried deep in darkest paper disavowed

Demonstration
of what I hear you ask—only
how to kill rabbits with a crack to the base of the skull

Too bad—
poison pays for charity
and apathy is pretty pretty good for business