Cut the drill, viscous leak.
Cut salt from earth, lead from water,
_               _drones from firmament.
[Insert this kiss, our natural habitat]
Cut asbestos from imploding
_               _buildings, ban it from the wind.
Delete half-lives / Hazmat suits / atomic tourism.
Erase phosphorous clouds,
_               _cut nerve agents.
Cut duct tape & anaphora of ammo
_               _from gooseflesh.
[Insert your touch, soft impact]
Snip the roses, lacquered in Mavrik™
_               _pesticide blitz.
[Insert rush of pearled seed]
Cut stuff with strychnine & speed.
Cut short the cutting speech.
Undercut bunk facts / crass theatrics.
Excise us, bodies up for gropes,
_               _strapped in the pink,
_               _dodging the grabs.
Strike down that crooked flag,
_               _deep slur on the wind.
Shred caution tape to ribbons.
Cut cluster munitions & billowing
_               _green chlorine gas.
[Insert your Lazarus comeback]
Cut to the chase & chastened,
_               _bloodhound / Technicolor face.
Cut scene to celluloid reams
_               _on the cutting room floor.
[Insert longing, my lifelong occupation]
Censor the shot from Time
_               _of a charred face
_               _in an armored truck.
Split bitter pill, crush to smithereens.
Delete barricades for the fleeing,
_               _cut no holes in their hulls.
[Insert refuge, sanctuary in your scent]
[Insert flesh memory]
Extract bit rot, data decay.
Cut coal debris & PCBs from waterways—
_               _rewind glacial rift.
Shred empire / strike gilded set
_               _with my father’s hammer.