Triptych Edit #1

[Animal Riots Activist]

Edit #1:

Triptych

A “ten times ten”
study hall
    looks like
        a sushi house
  to cannibals

Academia
         All you can eat

It’s very pretty to be
sitting on the quad
eating quadriceps
over a potbelly fire.

There’s really nothing exempt from cannibalism.

* * *

There’s a man with two contorted hands,
wrenching light from his optical computer.
Ten ten key keyboards lashed to his sled,
he codes marionette personas to flow out,
to manage, curate, and patronize a little
joke store inside a digital tidal wave.

* * *

a viper is heard
as he awakens
from a night terror

  two steps and
  a creak in the
  balls of the feet

      the hardwood floor bowing

ten by ten
splinter lattices
underneath
     
      as they both dance
      on the floor
      like vapor


Original:

Triptych

A “ten times ten”
study hall
    looks like
        a sushi house
  to cannibals

Academia = All you can eat

It’s all very pretty
sitting on the quad
eating a quadriceps
over a potbelly fire.

There’s really nothing exempt from cannibalism
if you think about it.

* * *

There’s a man with two wrenched hands
pulling lightning out of computers at his desk,
ten ten key keyboards lashed to his sled,
running a little joke store in a digital tidal wave.

* * *

a viper is heard

  two steps and
  a creak in the
  balls of the feet

      the hardwood floor bowing

ten by ten
splinter lattices
underneath
     
      as you both dance
      on the floor
      like vapor


-Em