clinic / i'm ok

killed 2(
gunman
inc
luded)

killed 2(
7 wound
ed inc
luded)

killed 2(
the rest
are exp
ected to
survive)

killed 2(
wounded
at rest 2
waiting
2
arrive at
their dest
ination
alive)

in the drag of a lost universe
between the ears and bleeding
captives of deadly ambivalent serotonin place
one foot in front of the other
and wander to the end of their halfbaked goal

there but for the grace of chemistry
and featherlight
dice go
2(wound
ed inc
lusive)
exactly
the same

our pains are identical
even as the maw between
our actions renders no
unity or sympathy
exactly as different as can be

we are both exactly irrelevant
2(wounded)
one continues to elude

you killed 2 because there is no country
for the suffering to own

one of them was you
because you never owned anything
but suffering
not even yourself