Mosquito Murder

.it's so easy when it seems not to matter.

One way or another most of us end up slaughtered

Dead mucous spread over speeding chrome

X imprints Y with, whatever

Dead violence forgotten

Breeding more

Those who use chrome to slaughter

Those who file away

(death)

Dead violence

Like it never mattered

Driven hard and furious

Through dirty windshields

Full of smeared death

They say it's just mosquitos

On the empire's windows

I never parked feeling well about it

--

Just clean it and don't think about it

There will be more

There is always more to be cleaned

There will always be more

To be forgotten

Willfully

To be cleaned

It's easier to repeat those ways

When it's only bugs on my windshields

Instead of flesh upon my bullets

(this is not clean)

This must matter

We cannot be slaughter

We cannot be death

Man will die

As the earth cleans her windshield

Of our remnants

Cleaned.... we will be forgotten

Like we never mattered

How degrading

To die like we never mattered

Forgotten, never again to be remembered

Author's Note

Reviews

[Cobblestone Traveler]

Excellent, excellent job. A clear and intense message. "As the earth cleans her windshield of our remnants"...great line. I got from that that we tend to detach and reshape the situation to something more tolerable. This way we might stave off the insanity of the hopelessness of the situation.

[Davidgeo]

Thank you very much. I think I'm going to start writing about less depressing things, I've noticed everything I write tends to be kind of a downer.

[GalaxyGhost]

Fascinating because it has power in its tone. Plus, there are many good points made here in your poem. Additionally, this has great imagery and metaphors in it
I like details that were in this.

[Nick Dahlburg]

Wow, this poem is amazing, the message, the way it was delivered, it's all so unique and creative. I wish I could be on here more often than I am, if I was I could have more time to read your work. Bang-up job, keep doing what you're doing, because this was amazing.