15.789 REAL DEAD PEOPLE PER PAGE

What type of disease causes
this depravity?
A summer day in Norway
A political extremist kills 76 people

In Norway--it is an obscene tragedy
the worse mass murder since
World War Two.
Here it's just a busy
Saturday evening

You'd think that there'd be
some kind of warning that--
if we'd been paying attention
we might have prevented it this time

You'd think the killer
would have given us more clues
But it's not until afterwards
we check out his online presence
Facebook or Myspace

And find the 1200 page manifesto
that no one would ever read
No one would ever read, except
when the author kills 76 people.
15.789 real dead people per page
the ultimate in vanity publishing

Murder is a rigid transaction
complex and anti-linear
There is no rose-colored lens
that can blur a head exploded
by a bullet or airbrush out
a training bra stained
by the rapid gushing of
arterial blood

No Scandinavian detective
will reluctantly explain it way
or explore the warping of one mind
to rage then mayhem

All I know is that
somewhere in the night
A perpetual loser
A perpetual loner
A failed poet perhaps?
is typing on his computer
planning, planning
actually planning something
for the first time in his life.

Reading the spewed hate
from the right-wing internet
stroking pictures of automatic rifles
with he "finger" of his computer's cursor
Soon he'll show us
Soon we'll see
That he is not to be ignored.

He is coming for us.
The sad and sorry question is
not if, but when.

Capitano Tedeschi

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15.789 REAL DEAD PEOPLE PER PAGE Copyright July 24, 2011, by Jamie Jacks