of an antibody nuclear bomb
cells exploding malignant cancer
eating psychic pain is personal
shame is universal
a soldier murders his own child
a mother drowns her own children
a child murders his classmates
a president proclaims,
“Bring it on!”
in the beginning was the word
and we are as responsible for our words
as we are for our weapons
and have been promised
“What we do unto others
will be done unto us.”
(it’s a two way street)