Start with an empty canvas Sketch in broad outline the forms of men, women, and children. Dip into the well of your own disowned darkness with a wide brush and stain the strangers with the sinister hue of the shadow. Trace onto the face of the enemy the greed, hatred, carelessness you dare not claim as your own. Obscure the sweet individuality of each face. Erase all hints of the myriad loves, hopes, fears that play through the kaleidoscope of every finite heart. Twist the smile until it forms the downward arc of cruelty. Strip flesh from bone until only the abstract skeleton of death remains. Exaggerate each feature until man is metamorphasized into beast, vermin, insect. Fill in the background with malignant figures from ancient nightmares - devils demons, myrmidons of evil. When your icon of the enemy is complete you will be able to kill without guilt, slaughter without shame. The thing you destroy will have become merely an enemy of God, an impediment to the sacred dialectic of history.
this line blew me away ''Twist the smile until it forms the downward arc of cruelty.'' thank you from someone that usually can not appreciate poetry
Im considering getting this tattoed on my upper thigh where it would only be seen if I'm naked, by someone whom I'm getting intimate with.
your words create a vivid picture and the actuall picture is flippin awesome haha .. i was hoping there was sum artwork to go with this poem .. very nice
