absolution

and when we are eaten alive
and when times get tough
says the liberal panic grief
says the lavatory wall
when all are dead and gone
in this information age
against the living
sitting pure witness to
ordinariness
dripping with perfect timing
on that day
without warranties
laying wedged in all-purpose heat
lacerated for organ removal
raw with gravity of axes
bits of flesh
will resist extraction
to all the odd pictures
in multiple forms
and multiple locations
and all geographic illusion
and accumulation factors
will stand still
while nothing happens