Give them enough of impunity
they will kill even them selves,
themselves oblivious their own
shadow stalking them wherever
They go on and on with games,
the old games of ancient ritual
gone so cult in the center of that
huge ring of gladiatorial conflict
Violence played out to its logical
extreme of murder & assassination
so I look over my shoulder in this
horror of the total surveillance cult
Control freak intrusion every-where
we look, we go, then we coagulate
in the wounds and the fatal injuries
that multiply in such plain site spite.
James Van Looy has been a fixture in Boston’s poetry venues since the 1970s. He is a member of Cosmic Spelunker Theater and has run poetry workshops for Boston area homeless people at Pine Street Inn and St. Francis House since 1992. Van Looy leads the Labyrinth Creative Movement Workshop, which his Labyrinth titled poems are based on. His work appears weekly in Oddball Magazine.