Perfect Justice

First they came for us in numbers
Uncountable
Four point five billion six hundred and three
Too many zeroes found inescapable
Round prisons with no
Right angles
They killed us with kindness
soft touches
and flower bombs
Chanting into our dreamswept orifices
Thou
Shalt
Not
Rock and
Thou
Shalt
Not
Roll.
Lifting our pacified revolutionary bodies
into warm rivers
of sulfur and sweat
A spark of memory burns
We cried our rebel voices
scratched and parched weakly
No. No.
You cannot silence our --
You cannot drown the --
swiftly ended
Our mouths stuffed with flesh meat from fallen souls
and rebel children

They opened our eyes underwater,
ate our manhood,
Wriggled into our girlishness,
Destroyed us from
Our very insides
All the while chanting
Thou shalt not
ROCK and
Thou shalt not
ROLL
Taking our spouses
Thieving our loves
Cutting them piece by piece
Peace by Peace
Mashing them together with cloud gossamer
ad starlight,
Sweetly o sweetly feed us our morning dosage of
Comatose and Apathy

They came for us in numbers
Insurmountable
Impassable
Unstoppable
They came for us with spears of romance,
Swords of complacency,
and shields of unquestionable society
To cut through our trenches built carefully
of gardens and hope
To set aflame our houses of vinyl and 8-tracks
To spill our blood made of wine and lazy marijuana nights
They came for us in numbers
Four point five billion six hundred and one
so they could feast on our souls
and set themselves free.