Jamie Edgecombe
Doomster's Sonnet
‘Then we turn to lesser poems, poems that tell you killing children is bad …
dying is sad.’
David Lehmen
Discord was not familiar to my
-Searing heat is actual burning buildings-
rat-atat-splat miss-imagination
-Staring bodies-painting rancid residues-
loving the gritty war films where actors die/
-The hues-once-beloved things-
computer bites find annihilation,
-Mummy melted-charcoaled dollies-
but in my crush-comfort, I run my bath hot,
-No tragedy-but tragic-lucky-
not prepared for the flash images of
-If sporadic-volleys of firefight opera-
(warm
-Atomic nightmares-fire bomb frenzies-
wet
-Shell casing habitats-SOOT-utopia-
red
-HELL-the creatored artificial-harmony-
thick
-Created through collaboration-
&
-Friendship --and it loss-perfection-
sticky)
-Can the world take anymore-
false products of a doomster’s “invention.”
-Bloodshed poetry-and-required condition?-
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