Tradition

[Wjames]

I

We’ve killed tradition;
sliced open its throat
Made murder a virtue This line and the one preceding it do not connect very well, imo. 
And dignity a sin
Made colors turn blind
music deaf
literature mute
and the canvas blank
My heart lost rhythm
And my speech lost rhyme
My thoughts have derailed
And my senses had dulled
for my ears refuse to hear
That we murdered tradition As someone who is generally opposed to most traditions, I like the end of this stanza, as to my reading, it portrays people who rely on tradition as unable to think for themselves without the crutch of their traditions.
 
II
 
There lays a body
A stiffened corpse I would cut "a body" here, "a stiffened corpse" says as much in a much more interesting way, no need to repeat yourself.
With lifeless eyes
Akin to that of a fish Why "akin to that of" instead of a simple "like"? "Akin to that of" says the exact same thing as "like", but wastes an extra four syllables without adding anything to my reading.
Marked like cattle
A card sticking out I would add "with" to the beginning of this line, it helps connect it to the preceding line imo.
Under his left lobe
Labeled “Tradition”
And “Long overdue”

This is an interesting poem. I think it could be made more interesting by changing the "we"s in the first stanza to "they"s. 

This would provide the piece with two different perspectives on the same issue, the first stanza with a narrator in favour of tradition who is not involved in it's death, and the second stanza with the narrator an active participant in its gruesome murder. Or one could read it as a single unreliable narrator, or a narrator who can view both the good and negative aspects of tradition.

Also, why not use punctuation (mainly periods) to help guide the reader? In some cases it can help a poem, but here it simply made reading the poem more difficult for me.

Anyways, I think there's a few kernels of interesting material in here - hopefully my thoughts are useful.