Texas Fontanella

save
what    left of     body
      peel away and     human
turns     to                hand
lungs            in glass tanks and
  brain in   jar


                       face and bullets

                                 pure Descartes


don't you feel cheated?

The point is not

                             disastrous;

                there are a lot of guns and

  collateral damage
       
violence - glorious violence

-is the point





          good thing







                                   he is
          a gunslinger.

Texas Fontanella studies philosophy at the University of Sydney. The poem above is part of ‘Intel from Nova’, one of two longer sequences he is working on.
 
 
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