Black Wail

brethren hear the black-wail choir,
slit-throat guttural missive under
bullet hail.
rivers eat the splintered breasts
of doves piled in our useless flesh.
corpses wreathed with cherry blossoms
glisten like wet candy under lapis sky.
worms unfold and bloom white datura
antennae pumping silver narcotics
for the nation builders.

may your mother rise up from the grave.
may your mother murder you.