the boy’s fingers tie
a dozen plastic
battleships
with copper wire
to unstretched canvas
anselm kiefer
mistakes
monet’s grainstack for
pure painting
tell the story
of colin powell
at the united nations
advocate of war
in 2003 his staff
covers guernica
with a curtain
atlantic blue
anselm kiefer
purchases
the mülheim-kärlich
nuclear reactor
i swipe my plastic
hammer i have
no respect for
other languages
or birds or the elderly
parked diagonally across
three quick edwardian lakes
i smile into a german car
i wish none harm
the past squeaks when
i am violent
the air forced from
my plastic head
i implore you
save yourself please
please i can’t
do it for you
i won’t