Fertile Ground

1 If this year tells us 
2 what becomes of our age,
3 remember the wide-eyed rabbit 
4 shocked by the world 
5 and staring about-face 
6 into a human abyss.
7
8 Like time stuck
9 on a clock hung 
10 on a cold kitchen wall,
11 a hare stopped in its tracks 
12 is startling brutality 
13 of broken-off reality,
14 of men killing 
15 not out of necessity
16 but simply to be 
17 the rabbit’s misery.
18
19 Wide-eyed and dead,
20 left to become 
21 a vessel of death
22 and maggots in a field, 
23 having seized itself to death,
24 the dead-eyed faces 
25 of men living 
26 in empty vessels 
27 of abdicated souls 
28 lord over 
29 the rabbit no longer.
30
31 Pray fertile death 
32 restores our land,
33 and brutal men 
34 never retake dominion.

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