Notes on the Wikileaked Video of the 2007 Massacre
We had fed the heart on fantasies,
The heart’s grown brutal from the fare;
More substance in our enmities
Than in our love; O honey-bees,
Come build in the empty house of the stare.
– WB Yeats
The presence of the Father is enough.
In his underpants like Noah, in a black van
Carrying a weapon he’s obscene.
It might be
An RPG
Can’t hurt me
Turns out it was a camera’s shadow
A rumour of truth
Circling like a nightmare, the black helicopter
Checkmates the black van.
The houses are not empty. Children cower.
Mothers whisper.
Silence and dust.
I withdraw allegiance from the United Snakes
Edward G. Nilges 23 Nov 2010
Edward G. Nilges, “Inadequately to Mourn”, ink and wash drawing assembled with video still, 23 Nov 2010
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