Domestic

“it’s true” “in my bedroom” “no threat of death” “for a man” “like me; “it’s

true, i haven’t carved” “my heart from my chest” “—probably wouldn’t

last” “long enough” “to push scalpel through rib;” “it’s true,” “a man like

me says,” “one can get away” “from it all” “in the heat of a night club;” “it’s

true, once,” “a man like me” “decided to live,” “that’s when I decided too”

“—it was my secret;” “it’s true” “that a man like me,” “even his taxes pay”

“for drone bombs;” “it’s true” “90% collateral kill rate;” “it’s true,” “i

listened to” “a .wav file of an atomic bomb” “test” “and a man like me”

“heard it so horrible” “he turned it off” “in the first fifteen seconds;” “i

devoured the whole thing;” “grew some ghost wrinkles” “in my petri dish

archive;” “to resonate” “in a world like this,” “a man needs as much surface

area” “as he can get,” “shing of garden shears” “sharp;” “arrangement;”

“object in a pattern;” “variationbombs” “with wicks” “doused in” “sound

waves” “duct taped inside a vest;” “something really happens—” “for a man

like me—” “something scary;” “something so easy” “it’s scary,” “just step

to the beat.”