a perspective [2009]

I kept a comic book inside my brain

and read it faithfully until the day

I dreamt of god and bombs, and chemicals

and woke from slumber in another way

the clock was ticking fast so time was short

and buildings don't collapse upon themselves

I stuffed the knapsack full of glass and nails

and found the rest on local hardware shelves

I took the subway down to seventeenth

and walked up to the level of the street

where hundreds, maybe more were passing by

I entered the World Bank and took a seat

before I pulled the cord for god and me

I took the time to pray a little more

and as the glass and nails and death prevailed

he thanked me for my righteous holy war