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A Study of Assassination

David Ethan

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you are a pixel
and

i’m not at fault,
failing to feel

remorse, x
-ing figures

from overhead
start to make

patterns, circling, and
there’s a rhythm and

process to “action
painting”

that looks like tiny red
drops

and green brush
strikes below

these days

: language

is nt like it
used to be,

war games
are real (real

istic! ) and i
think nothing of

clicking x while
circling above

watch drone as
watches down

sunny today

and you lay

in the back
yard

ripe with flowers
bodies

spread
make x

and above,
silence

kiss you to
sleep

: in front of the sun
a day circling

above, sleeping
florescent

beams
filter through

paned glass window,
cat kisses

mice in
the vegetable garden

assassination, a term
thought to be derived

from hasish a drug
similar to marijuana

said to have been used
by Hasan-Dan-Sabah

to motivate
followers who

were assigned to
carry out political

kisses and
other murder

this is
just to say

kissed an 18
year old girl

today
and

i’m sorry
i feel awful,

but she
looked so sweet

and young
and i was

feeling particularly
reckless

high
: behind a cloud

i listen to jazz
and look down

remember
what its like to kiss

ants, like (children
’s) play

bug splats.

David Ethan

David Ethan lives in Los Angeles.

Author: David Ethan Tags: poetry Category: Poetry October 2, 2015

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