Here is what is left of it.
BLACK NIGHT
Pa dead—a bullet in his head—
in the garden.
White bodies press
against the doorjamb.
Ma scream—
the house burn down.
"This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang but a whimper." --T.S. Eliot, "The Hollow Men."
I will cleave until the white ugly heart of your skull is barren and yet I shall love you to the uttermost days of my life.
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