Status Updates From American Purgatory

“but you will not see the flag of warning
I’ve become, since no one gets out of here
alive, boys, not one.”

“Love is funny, in that it’s dead
but not dead.”

“Killing feels so little like dying, praise him
who made it so.”

“We’ve been called to a place worse than us
to learn there’s nothing here worse than us.”

“I woke cold and sweating. I woke knowing
I had no home. They say the low moon is coming.
Maybe so. Why else would the street dogs make so much
noise. I wish it meant something. I wish a moon could pull
so strong dirt would gush a well. I’d get my silver bucket.
I’d open my mouth. The fire - it’s a game; one guy sets it
from boredom and from boredom the other puts it out.”